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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.
- Collier Robert

Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.
- Schwartz David J.

There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.
- Fitch Fred W.

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

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
- Shula Don

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.
- Proverb Jewish

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
- Ball Lucille

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

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Pollock Channing

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
- Tracy Brian

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.
- Korda Michael

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
- Spurgeon Charles Haddon

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
- Franklin Benjamin

A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
- Proverb Chinese

Good luck needs no explanation.
- Black Shirley Temple

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- Brown Jr. H. Jackson

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
- Clason George S.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
- Cobden Richard

Luck is being ready for the chance.
- Doble J. Frank

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- Garfield James A.

Some folk want their luck buttered.
- Hardy Thomas

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

Luck is tenacity of purpose.
- Hubbard Elbert

Luck's always to blame.
- La Fontaine Jean De

In short, luck's always to blame.
- La Fontaine Jean De

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Letterman Elmer G.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
- Oates Joyce Carol

Luck is the idol of the idle.
- Proverb

Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
- Proverb German

Good luck beats early rising.
- Proverb Irish

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
- Proverb Persian

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
- Proverb Yiddish

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
- Thomas David

Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
- Anonymous

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
- Winfrey Oprah

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
- Poyer Joe

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
- Wilson Earl

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Mathis Andrew W.

We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
- Morley Christopher

Luck never gives; it only lends.
- Proverb Chinese

Luck in the long run is only given to the efficient.
- von Moltke Helmuth Graf

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
- Gracian Baltasar

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
- Robbins Anthony

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.
- Shoen Sam

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
- Anonymous

No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
- Miller Reggie

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.
- Erickson Marian

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

Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
- Dickinson Emily

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
- Harris Joel Chandler

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
- Anonymous

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for ourluck.
- La Rochefoucauld Francois De

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
- Howe Edgar Watson

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me.
- Bonaparte Napoleon

There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
- Euripides

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

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

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

Need is the driving force, Need makes people better -- luck only makes them worse.
- Anonymous

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
- Chapin Jr. Roy D.

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
- Proverb American

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
- Hemingway Ernest

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
- Davies Robertson

Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
- Emerson Ralph Waldo

Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
- Jerrold Douglas William

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.
- Winwood Steve

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
- Zaharias Babe Didrikson

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.
- Anonymous

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
- Lowell James Russell

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Murdoch Iris

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
- Cocteau Jean

I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
- Leacock Stephen B.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
- Isherwood Christopher

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

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Jefferson Thomas

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.
- Dangerfield Rodney

Better luck next time they say, or you win some you lose some, I guess it's something like that.
- Dye James

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
- Billings Josh

I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
- Hemingway Ernest

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
- Ovid

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
- Josefowitz Natasha

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
- Steele Tommy

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
- Newman Nanette

The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do - Cohen Ronald

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- Dewey John

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.
- Josefowitz Natasha

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
- Parker Dorothy

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- Bulwer-Lytton Edward G.

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
- Bush Barbara

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.
- Anonymous

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
- Goldwyn Samuel

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
- Marden Orison Swett

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
- Barr Amelia E.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
- Cherbuliez Victor

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.
- Kleiser Grenville