Luck Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Horseshoes, Ifs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103

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

  Josh Billings

  Success, Long, Giving

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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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 tenacity of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Purpose, Tenacity

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• In short, luck's always to blame.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Blame

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book V". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1688.

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

  George S. Clason

  Good Luck, Men, Action

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

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• Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

  James Cash Penney

  Laziness, Lasts, Economy

  James Cash Penney, Robert Walter Bruère (1931). “J.C. Penney: the Man with a Thousand Partners: An Autobiography of J.C. Penney”

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• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson

  Good Luck, Gambling, Toil

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1630, Delphi Classics

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• Good luck needs no explanation.

  Shirley Temple

  Good Luck, Team Building, Needs

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

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• A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

  Juvenal

  Men, White, Crow

  Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.44

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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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• I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Children, Giving, Enjoy

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• Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

  Og Mandino

  Good Luck, Adversity, Encounters

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

  Aaron Allston

  Hanging On, Way, Fingernails

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• Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

  Ed Bradley

  Hard Work, Good Luck, Littles

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Remark after his election to Académie Française, 1955.

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• A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Player, Accepting

  "Phædra". Play by Sophocles, Fragment 947,

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• Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

  Richard Bach

  Real, Long, May

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

  William Matthews

  Opposites, Faithful, Victory

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• When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

  Armand Hammer

  Motivational, Positive Thinking, Lucky Day

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• Some folk want their luck buttered.

  Thomas Hardy

  Business, Want, Finance

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, p.107, Thomas Hardy

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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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• Luck is believing you're lucky.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Good Luck, Lucky

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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