Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Luck

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Harris, Joel Chandler

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

Bible

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

Davies, Robertson

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Langston Coleman

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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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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

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

Shoen, Sam

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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

Thomas, David

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb, German

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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.

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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 a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

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

Bible

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Winwood, Steve

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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.