Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Thomas, David

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

15.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

25.

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

Winwood, Steve

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Bible

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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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There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

Bible

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

32.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Langston Coleman

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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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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert