Luck Quotes - Page 9

• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden

  Character, Chance, Labor

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• Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

  Neil Armstrong

  Good Luck

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• A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

  E. W. Howe

  Good Luck, Men, Years

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• I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

  Neil Diamond

  Hard Work, Keys, Play

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• With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

  Andy Grove

  Business, Microsoft, Finance

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Business, Average, People

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

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• 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

  Mean, Simple, Moments

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• 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

  Stars, Sleep, Night

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• If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

  Charles Saatchi

  People, Criticism, Kicking

  Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.35

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• When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Your Side, Achievement

  Donald J. Trump, Bill Zanker (2007). “Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life”, HarperBus

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• As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Giving, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

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• 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

  Pay, Chance, Spending

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

  Tom Holt

  Car, Ifs

  Tom Holt (2002). “The Second Tom Holt Omnibus”

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• We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away.

  Lesley Boone

  Country, Children, Responsibility

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• Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dust, Hands, Wind

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• Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Way, Bluffs

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

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

  Francois Truffaut

  Humility, Men, Design

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

  Ovid

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

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• If you think you can - you can!

  Ronald Reagan

  Failure, Good Luck, Thinking

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• The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

  Anchee Min

  Good Luck, Tree, Sun

  Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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