Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

2.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

3.

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

4.

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

5.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

6.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

7.

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

8.

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

Kroc, Ray

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.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

14.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

16.

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

Shay, R. E.

17.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

18.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

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

Jean Cocteau

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Davies, Robertson

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

35.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

36.

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

Bible

37.

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