Luck Quotes

Chance favors those in motion.

Dr. James H. Austin

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.

Emily Dickinson

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

Benjamin Franklin

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

Dr. Denton Cooley

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

Anonymous

Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

As ill-luck would have it.

Miguel de Cervantes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

Behind bad luck comes good luck.

We must master our good fortune or it will master us.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thomas Jefferson

Good luck needs no explanation.

Shirley Temple Black

Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep the trains you have never failed to catch.

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

Langston Coleman

Luck is not chance it's toil fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Emily Dickinson

The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile.

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

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.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled have persevered when others gave up in despair 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 so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Grenville Kleiser

I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Dianne Feinstein

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

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

The more you invest in a marriage the more valuable it becomes.

Amy Grant

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone it has to be made like bread remade all the time made new.

Ursula K. LeGuin

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Plutarch

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

L.M. Montgomery

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.

I'm hardnosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter and then one day somebody gives you a job you can say "Gee I was lucky I happened to go up there today." But dammit I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. ... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working you almost make your own fortune.

Jerry Delia Femina

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

Louisa May Alcott

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Elizabeth Blackwell

To wait for someone else or to expect someone else to make my life richer or fuller or more satisfying puts me in a constant state of suspension.

Kathleen Tierney Andrus

The champion makes his own luck.

Red Blaik

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

Baltasar Gracián

I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.

Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding better those who push forward who employ their enterprise who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck and to effectively gain her favor.

Baltasar Gracián

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fighting with their star or against it and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

Go and wake up your luck.

Persian Proverb

People make their own luck.

David Liederman

When it comes time to do your own life you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

If fate means you to lose give him a good fight anyhow.

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

Jeanne Detourbey

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Flora Whittemore

Good luck is often with the man who doesn't include it in his plans.

Anonymous

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

Anonymous

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.

Phyllis Bottome

They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.

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