Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

2.

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

Kroc, Ray

3.

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

4.

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

Lowell, James Russell

5.

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

Blake, William

6.

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

Pollock, Channing

7.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

8.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

9.

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.

10.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

13.

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

14.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

15.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

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

Shoen, Sam

18.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

19.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

20.

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

Davies, Robertson

21.

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

22.

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

Hawken, Paul

23.

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

24.

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

25.

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

Winwood, Steve

26.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

29.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

30.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Collier, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

Jean Cocteau

33.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

34.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Sher, Barbara

40.

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

41.

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.