Motivational Quotes

Luck

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

Langston Coleman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Shoen, Sam

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

Sher, Barbara

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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Beaverbrook, Lord

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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.

John Hay

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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Shay, R. E.

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Blake, William

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There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Cocteau

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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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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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Proverb, German

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Tracy, Brian

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Thomas, David

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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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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

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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

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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