Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

Robbins, Anthony

2.

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

3.

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

Jean Cocteau

4.

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

Dickinson, Emily

5.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

6.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

7.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

8.

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

9.

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

Thomas, David

10.

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

11.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

12.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

13.

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

14.

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

Kroc, Ray

15.

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

16.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

22.

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

Davies, Robertson

23.

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

Sher, Barbara

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

29.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

30.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

31.

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

Langston Coleman

32.

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

33.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

37.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

40.

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