Luck And Skill Quotes

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Business, Good Luck, Skills

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

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• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  Patrick MacGill

  Skills, Soldier, Luck

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Good Luck, Best Of Luck, Spoken Word

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• The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

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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 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.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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• You make your Own luck.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Amazed

  Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.98, Jaico Publishing House

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

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• I was in the right place at the right time.

  Mel Allen

  Photography, Perseverance, Good Luck

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• I happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Calvin Harris

  Good Luck, Ohio, Mcdonalds

  "Calvin Harris Out-Earns Jay Z, Toby Keith As World’s Highest Paid DJ" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2014.

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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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• The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

  Richie Benaud

  Sports, Winning, Toss

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

  Magnus

  Skills, Lovely, Luck

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• Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Skills, People

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• He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

  Cassandra Clare

  Skills, Broken, Lovely

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.

  Randall Jarrell

  Book, Taken, Rome

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Fifty Years of American Poetry", p. 299, 1969.

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• Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

  Paul Ormerod

  Skills, Lunch, Luck

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong, Sleep, Skills

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