Good Luck Quotes

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

Barbara Sher

Lucky, Way, Best Of Luck

Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.20, Dell

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

Conduct of Life Worship (pp. 191-2)

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

Ray Kroc

Inspirational, Basketball, Business

1988 Quoted by Penny Moser 'The McDonald's Mystique', in Fortune, 4 Jul.

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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy

Bad Luck, Fortune And Luck, Saved

Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

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He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

Frederick William Faber

Waiting, Best Of Luck

Frederick William Faber (1860). “Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life”, p.151

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Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Benjamin Franklin

Motivational, Mother, Business

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

Gautama Buddha

Best Of Luck, Luck And Skill, Spoken Word

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Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

Ovid

Lucky Day, Hook, Best Of Luck

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

"5 Ways to Deal With Rejection" by Karen Naumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2016.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Long, Best Of Luck

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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I sometimes 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

Military, Army, Thinking

"Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Larry King

Success, Wisdom, Fake People

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

Baltasar Gracian

Business, Skills, Waiting

Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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

Bret Harte

Leadership, Sports, Money

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Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Ashleigh Brilliant

Lucky Day, May, Brilliant

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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

Gambling, People, Justice

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

James Russell Lowell

Character, Best Of Luck, Duty

"The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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

Douglas MacArthur

Success, Lucky Day, Luck

"Fifty Years After MacArthur's 'Duty, Honor, Country' Speech" by Bruce Walker, www.thenewamerican.com. May 12, 2012.

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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

Thomas Jefferson

Inspirational, Success, Determination

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

Inspirational, Humor, Personality

"President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial". Book by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, 1882.

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