Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Jean Cocteau

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Winwood, Steve

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

Kroc, Ray

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Blake, William

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

Hawken, Paul

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Langston Coleman

10.

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

Davies, Robertson

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Jean Cocteau

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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.

39.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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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The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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

Bible

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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