Good Luck Quotes

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

  Barbara Sher

  Lucky, Way, Best Of Luck

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

  Cormac McCarthy

  Bad Luck, Fortune And Luck, Saved

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

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• He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

  Frederick William Faber

  Waiting, Best Of Luck

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Growth in holiness, or the progress of the spiritual life”, p.151

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• Diligence is the mother of good luck.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Mother, Business

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Best Of Luck, Luck And Skill, Spoken Word

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

  Ovid

  Lucky Day, Hook, Best Of Luck

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  The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

  Harry Golden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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

  Orson Welles

  Gambling, People, Justice

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• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Literature, World

  'The Longest Journey' (1907) ch. 12

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• A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Humor, Personality

  "President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial". Book by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, 1882.

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Business, Skills, Waiting

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

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• People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Luck, Criticism

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• For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Long, Best Of Luck

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

  Larry King

  Success, Wisdom, Fake People

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• Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Best Of Luck, Duty

  "The Works of James Russell Lowell".

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

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Money

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• Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Lucky Day, May, Brilliant

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.

  George S. Clason

  Men, Action, Goddess

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.52, Lulu.com

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