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Thursday, 20 November 2008
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"The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment." (Barnes, Djuna - Night)

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Browse Quotations about Luck

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.
Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving
Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
Good luck beats early rising.
Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
Good luck needs no explanation.
I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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.
I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
In short, luck's always to blame.
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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.
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.
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
Luck is being ready for the chance.
Luck is infatuated with the efficient.
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Luck is the idol of the idle.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Luck marches with those who give their very best
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
Luck seeks those who flee and flees those who seek it.
Luck's always to blame.
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.
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.
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.
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.
Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.
Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. He's lucky, an envious person remarks. He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor. In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called luck usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by pull, but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
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.
Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
The harder I work the luckier I get.
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.
-- Bible | Luck
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]
-- Bible | Luck
There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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.
Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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.
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.
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
When God throws the dice are loaded.
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
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.