Quotes about luck

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.

— Lucille Ball

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

— Lord Beaverbrook

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

— Bible

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

— Bible

Good luck needs no explanation.

— Shirley Temple Black

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

— William Blake

Luck marches with those who give their very best

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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.

— Barbara Bush

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.

— Victor Cherbuliez

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

— George S. Clason

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

— Richard Cobden

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

— Jean Cocteau

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.

— Robert Collier

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

— Robertson Davies

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

— John Dewey

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

— Emily Dickinson

Luck is being ready for the chance.

— J. Frank Doble

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.

— Robert Doisneau

There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Michel Foucault

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

— James A. Garfield

The harder I work the luckier I get.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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.

— John Grisham

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

— Dr. Armand Hammer

Some folk want their luck buttered.

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Joel Chandler Harris

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

— Bret Harte

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

— Paul Hawken

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.

— Kenneth Hildebrand

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Douglas William Jerrold

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

— Natasha Josefowitz

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.

— Natasha Josefowitz

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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.

— Grenville Kleiser

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.

— Michael Korda

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

— Ray Kroc

Luck's always to blame.

— Jean De La Fontaine

In short, luck's always to blame.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Stephen B. Leacock

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

— Elmer G. Leterman

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

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Douglas Macarthur

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

— Gary Player

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

— Channing Pollock

Luck is the idol of the idle.

— Proverb

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

— German Proverb

When God throws the dice are loaded.

— Greek Proverb

Good luck beats early rising.

— Irish Proverb

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

— Italian Proverb

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

— Persian Proverb

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

— Yiddish Proverb

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

— Anthony Robbins

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

— R. E. Shay

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

— Barbara Sher

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

— Sam Shoen

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.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

— David Thomas

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

— Brian Tracy

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

— John Webster

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— Steve Winwood

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Jean Cocteau

You must first stick your toes in the water to gauge the temper but before you jump into the water you must remember the water flows and as such the temperature changes.

— Source Unknown

The harder you work the luckier you'll get

— ranka dharam