Motivational Quotes

Luck

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

- Pollock, Channing

Best Quotes about Luck

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Gracian, Baltasar

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Hammer, Dr. Armand

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Doisneau, Robert

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Dickinson, Emily

Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Korda, Michael

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

Grisham, John

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Sher, Barbara

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Lowell, James Russell

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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

Webster, John

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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hawken, Paul

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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving

Winwood, Steve

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Cherbuliez, Victor

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Ball, Lucille

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Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.

Proverb, German

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

Bush, Barbara

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Foucault, Michel

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Kleiser, Grenville

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.