Good Luck Quotes - Page 2

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Gambling, Toil, Chance

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Looks, Best Of Luck

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• Everything in life is luck.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Twitter post from

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

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Good night, and good luck.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Good Night, Best Of Luck, Journalism

  Response to Senator Joe McCarthy on CBS' See It Now, Originally Broadcast 13 April 1954

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• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Best Of Luck, Boat

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

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• All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

  Robert Collier

  Perseverance, Business, Men

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• Luck is believing you're lucky.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Luck, Lucky

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

  Og Mandino

  Adversity, Encounters, Lucky

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• You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

  Bill Watterson

  Lucky, Rockets, Ships

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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

  Anchee Min

  Tree, Luck, Sun

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

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• We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Media, Different, Allergies

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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  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

  Strength, Success, Encouraging

  "Lake Wobegon Days". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1985.

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Numbers, Divinity

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

  Eric Hoffer

  Time, Greatness, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Good luck has its storms.

  George Lucas

  Luck, Storm

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• If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

  John Irving

  Life, Courage, Love You

  John Irving (2012). “The World According To Garp”, p.605, Random House

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• Wisdom is the winner over good luck.

  Juvenal

  Luck, Winner

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• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

  Hector Berlioz

  Talent, Enough, Hector

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