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Luck is success by chance
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Some say that luck plays an important role in determining success
- Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump
- So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. Chris LeDoux
- Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves. Larry King
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Others argue that luck is not a matter of chance but is earned
- It’s hard to detect good luck – it looks so much like something you’ve earned. Frank A. Clark
- Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson
- Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. James Russell Lowell
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Don’t sit back and rely on luck …
- Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it. Brandon Mull
- Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who don’t depend on it.
- Luck is the idol of the idle. Proverb
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… but rather go out and create your own
- Go and wake up your luck. Persian Saying
- Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. Baltasar Gracian
- Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it. Vera Nazarian
- Luck is the residue of design. John Milton
- Proactiveness
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Luck happens when preparation and opportunity meet
- Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
- I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
- Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Seneca
- The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. Tony Robbins
- Preparation, Opportunity
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Luck is recognising opportunity when it comes
- 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
- Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.
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Luck favours those who work hard work
- Care and diligence bring luck. Thomas Fuller
- Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin
- Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have. Ed Bradley
- I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock
- I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. Coleman Cox
- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. Ray Kroc
- Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. Don Sutton
- 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
- Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
- The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. Harry Golden
- When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. Dr. Armand Hammer
- Hard work, Effort, Diligence
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Luck favours those who give it their all
- Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. Langston Coleman
- Luck marches with those who give their very best. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Luck favours those with purpose and tenacity
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Luck favours the intelligent
- 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
- Intelligence
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Luck favours those with courage
- Fortune favours the brave. Virgil
- A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. James A. Garfield
- He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have. Ernest Hemingway
- Courage
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Luck favours those who show up
- 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
- The day you decide to do it is your lucky day. Proverb
- Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid
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Luck favours those with ability
- Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
- Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.
- Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. François de la Rochefoucauld
- The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. Edward Gibbon
- You can always tell luck from ability by its duration.
- Talent
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Luck tends to change
- Luck never gives; it only lends. Proverb
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Wilson Mizner
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Don’t make bad luck an excuse
- Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don’t have the wit to deal with the problems of life. Joan Lowery Nixon
- In short, luck’s always to blame. Jean De La Fontaine
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Bad luck can turn to good |
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What appears to be bad lucks can turn out to be good luck with time and perspective
- Maybe I’m lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. Ashleigh Brilliant
- Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. The Dalai Lama
- Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. Garrison Keillor
- Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck. Lorii Myers
- Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective. Alice Hoffman
- Time, Perspective
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- A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponents’ luck.
- A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. Christina Stead
- Aren’t I lucky to have survived so much bad luck. Ashleigh Brilliant
- As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. Josh Billings
- Eventually, if you’re lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. Robert Brault
- I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. Steven Wright
- I get plenty of exercise – jumping to conclusions, pushing my luck, and dodging deadlines.
- I’d rather be lucky than good. Lefty’ Gomez
- I’m not a believer in luck but I do believe you need it. A British soccer commentator
- I’ve had bad luck with both my wives; the first one left me and the second one didn’t. Patrick Murray
- It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- It’s a funny ol’ world. A man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive. C. Fields
- It’s bad luck to be superstitious.
- Luck: When your burst of energy doesn’t run afoul of someone else’s. Mignon McLaughlin
- Luck: An explanation for the other fellows’ success.
- Luck: The thing that draws us for jury duty but never for the lottery. Anonymous
- My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery people would stop dying. Rodney Dangerfield
- People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. Anne Tyler
- Someday my boat will come in, and with my luck I’ll be at the airport.
- Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. Michael Levine
- The ‘L’ in my luck has been replaced with an ‘F’.
- The more I practice the luckier I get. Gary Player
- The way my luck is running if I was a politician I would be honest. Rodney Dangerfield
- We must believe in luck; for how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like. Jean Cocteau
- You can always tell luck from ability by its duration.
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