Motivational Quotes

Luck

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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Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Langston Coleman

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

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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 harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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

Bible

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Shoen, Sam

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony