Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Luck

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

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

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

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Winwood, Steve

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Player, Gary

10.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Thomas, David

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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Bible

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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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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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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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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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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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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