Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

Best Quotes about Luck

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Jean Cocteau

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Blake, William

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Winwood, Steve

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Langston Coleman

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shay, R. E.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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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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Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

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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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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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 only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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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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Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

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

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Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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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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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 matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Kroc, Ray

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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