Lucky Breaks Quotes

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Temporary Defeat

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• The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

  Steve Blank

  Inspirational, Graduation, Running

  Philadelphia University Commencement Speech, steveblank.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Philosophy

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.51, Penguin

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• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Eye

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.98, Lulu.com

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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Imagination, Waiting

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• Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.

  Harrison Ford

  Hard Work, Luck, Mind

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• People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the “lucky breaks” theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck... The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.

  Steve Blank

  Graduation, Running, Careers

  Steve Blank's Commencement Address at Philadelphia University in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.

  William Wickenden

  Mean, Men, Discovery

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• I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Mistake, Stupid

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

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• As a kid, I would do all of the plays at my school, and I was notorious for being in five numbers in one show. I'd go onstage, run backstage for a wardrobe change, and then go back out onstage. I'm always trying to do more than I should but when I got my lucky break (or whatever it's called), I was prepared because I studied and worked really hard for it.

  Chrissie Fit

  Running, School, Kids

  "Meet Chrissie Fit: The Latina Actress Twirling Through Hollywood - Literally". Interview with Lyndsay Green, www.glamour.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.

  Isaac Asimov

  Lucky, Break, Heredity

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

  Dan Mangan

  Enjoy Life, Lucky, Break

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• You need lucky breaks to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, Lucky, Needs

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• An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

  Robin Sharma

  Choices, Lucky, Excellent

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 13, 2014

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• To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and the happy accidents of history--with a society that provides opportunities for all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Opportunity, Today, Happy Accidents

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• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Negative, Lucky

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

  Peter Cushing

  Lucky, Needs, Moments

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• Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

  George Michael

  Song, Couple, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.

  Erol Alkan

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Opportunity is sometimes hard to recognize if you're only looking for a lucky break.

  Unknown

  Opportunity, Lucky, Sometimes

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• The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'

  Dave Barry

  Marine, Two, Leader

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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• Since I was four, I can't remember wanting to do anything except entertain. And I got some lucky breaks. My daughter Victoria is the same.

  Tony Blackburn

  Daughter, Lucky, Four

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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