Motivational Quotes

Luck

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

- Winwood, Steve

Best Quotes about Luck

1.

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

2.

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

Clason, George S.

3.

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.

4.

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

Robbins, Anthony

5.

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

Hammer, Dr. Armand

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Sher, Barbara

11.

Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

Winwood, Steve

13.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

14.

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

Shoen, Sam

15.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

16.

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

Lowell, James Russell

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb, Persian

21.

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Dickinson, Emily

25.

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

Hawken, Paul

26.

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

27.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

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

Macarthur, Douglas

29.

In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

30.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

31.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

33.

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

34.

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

Beaverbrook, Lord

35.

Luck marches with those who give their very best

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

36.

When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

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

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

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

Thomas, David

43.

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

44.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

45.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

49.

The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

50.

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