Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck is being ready for the chance.

- Doble, J. Frank

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

Lowell, James Russell

2.

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

3.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

5.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

6.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

7.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

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

10.

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

Kroc, Ray

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shoen, Sam

17.

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

18.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

19.

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.

20.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

25.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

27.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

32.

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

33.

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

Hawken, Paul

34.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

35.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

36.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

37.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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

Blake, William

40.

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

Dickinson, Emily

41.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

43.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Shay, R. E.

47.

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

Thomas, David

48.

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

Winwood, Steve

49.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

50.

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