Luck Quotes

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

  Barbara Sher

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

  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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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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

  Orson Welles

  Good Luck, Gambling, People

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  Success, Good Luck, Lucky Day

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

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

  Cormac McCarthy

  Good Luck, Bad Luck, Fortune And Luck

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

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

  Ovid

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

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• Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting

  Gregory David Roberts

  Tired, Fate, Waiting

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• The harder I work, the luckier I get.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

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

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspirational, Good Luck, Looks

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• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Good Luck, Chance

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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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• I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

  Dennis Quaid

  Love Yourself, Acting, Know How

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• The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Conviction, Boast

  Gertrude Stein (1952). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes”

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• Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

  Serena Williams

  Motivational, Athlete, Knowing

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• Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Awful, Busy

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House

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• Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

  Alice Hoffman

  Good Luck, Perspective, Knows

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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• It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Attitude, Hard Work, Can Do

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• In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

  Bill Cosby

  Courage, Children, Dark

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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