Quotes about Luck
Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of HARD work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles, and not by chance or luck. Generally speaking, an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action
- Napoleon Hill
accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realise that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired money.
- Napoleon Hill
There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.
- Toni Morrison
Listen to me. You are about to find out what it takes, how the world is, how it works and how it changes when you are a parent. Good luck and God help the child.
- Toni Morrison
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it.
- Ruth Gordon
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
- Charles Spurgeon
Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
- Anonymous
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
- Euripides
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
- Laurence Sterne
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
- Mark Twain
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
- Marcus Aurelius