Motivational Thoughts About Luck, Quotes on Luck

Luck

Luck never gives; it only lends. -- Swedish Proverb

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. - Coleman Cox

It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes; hard to tell for many years to come. - Merle Shain

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. -- Max O'Rell

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. -- B.C. Forbes

True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table: Luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. -- John Hay

If you think you're lucky, you are. -- Bobby Dodd

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. -- Maya Angelou

There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so. -- German Proverb

A rabbit's foot is a poor substitute for horse sense. -- Unknown Author

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck. -- Unknown Author

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

Victory awaits those who have everything in order. People call this luck. -- Roald Amundson

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -- Stephen Leacock

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. -- Garrison Keillor

Good luck beats early rising. -- Irish Proverb

Diligence is the mother of good luck. -- American Proverb

He who does not venture has no luck. -- Mexican Proverb

Luck is being prepared for opportunity when it comes. -- Unknown Author

Luck = Good Planning + Careful Execution. -- Unknown Author

Luck never gives; it only lends. -- Swedish Proverb

When luck enters, give him a seat! -- Jewish Proverb

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian Proverb

Go and wake up your luck. -- Persian Proverb

Thorough preparation makes its own luck. -- Joe Poyer

Luck is like a sum of gold, to be spent. -- Edmund Allenby

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved. -- Reggie Miller

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. -- Samuel Goldwyn

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline--and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck. -- Carl Zuckmayer

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. -- Denis Waitley

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

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. -- Garrison Keillor

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. -- John Chatfield

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