I leave you the best phrases of luck, which illustrate that although sometimes destiny works in our favor, the most important thing is perseverance, preparation and hard work for success in our life.
They also highlight the need for contrasts in luck to learn and to enjoy the benefits of life. Some authors you will find are Chris Pine, Oprah Winfrey, EB White, and Donald Trump. You may also be interested in these phrases about hope.
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- Diligence is the mother of good luck. -Benjamin Franklin.
- Luck is the tenacity of purpose. -Elbert Hubbard.
- Luck favors the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur.
-The only thing that beats bad luck is hard work. -Harry Golden.
-Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. -Patrick Duffy.
-Good luck needs no explanation.
- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you will be. -Ray Kroc.
-Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. -Iain Duncan Smith.
-When it comes to luck, you build yours. -Bruce Springsteen.
- Luck consists of believing that you are lucky. -Tennessee Williams.
-You never know from what worse luck your bad luck saved you. -Cormac McCarthy.
-Luck has a way of evaporating when you depend on it. -Brandon Mull.
- Luck always seems to belong to someone else. -David Levien.
-The best of luck is the one we create on our own. -Douglas MacArthur.
- Luck never gives; just pay. -Swedish proverb.
- Luck is what you have left after giving 100%. -Langston Coleman.
-Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits with him. -German proverb.
-The champion makes his own luck. -Red Blaik.
-Good luck, in some cases, comes at the expense of the misfortune of others. -Jackie Stewart.
-Good luck often meets the man who does not include it in his plans. -Anonymous.
-The man who glorifies himself by his luck can be overthrown by fate. -Euripides.
-If you don't know which port you are sailing to, no wind is favorable. -Séneca.
-Remember that sometimes, not getting what you want is a surprising stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama.
-People forge their own luck with great preparation and good strategy. -Jack Canfield.
-The frivolous men believe in luck or in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-No one succeeds without a lot of hard work, the support of others, and a little luck. -Ron Conway.
-Care and diligence attract luck. -Thomas Fuller.
-He who is trying to make the most of his opportunities is too busy to worry about luck. -BC Forbes.
-If one is lucky, a lonely fantasy can be completely transformed into a million realities. -Maya Angelou.
- Luck is not a coincidence, it is work; the expensive smile of fortune needs to be earned. -Emily Dickinson.
-I think luck is when preparation meets opportunity. -Oprah Winfrey.
-It is very difficult to recognize good luck, it is too much like something you have earned. -Frank A. Clark.
-The amount of good luck that comes to you depends on your willingness to act. -Barbara Sher.
-Dreams can still come true; what you need is a lot of energy, determination, and a little luck. -Stefano Gabbana.
-Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just need a little luck. -Bear Grylls.
-I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I am very lucky. -Eric Clapton.
-The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. -Bret Harte.
-One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a little luck, it works in your favor. -Peter Mayle.
-You need to be lucky in life, but it's also a question of what you do with it. -Marlon Wayans.
-I believe that luck is when an opportunity comes and you are ready for it. -Denzel Washington.
-Good luck is a result of preparation. -Jack Youngblood.
-I don't trust Feng Shui. I believe that hard work brings us luck and success. -John Gokongwei.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of men who have come out on their own. -EB White.
-The greatest act of luck of a great man is to die at the right time. -Eric Hoffer.
-Success is always a matter of luck and timing. -Kathleen Kennedy.
-I may have been very lucky in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game. -Zinedine Zidane.
-I'm a great believer in luck. The harder you work, the luckier you get. -Jeannette Walls.
-Everything in this life is luck. -Donald Trump.
-Every day that a piano does not fall on my head is a day of good luck. -Meg Rosoff.
-Nothing is as offensive as other people's luck. -F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-Don't minimize the importance of luck when determining the course of life. -Alex Trebek.
-I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays its part. -Neil Diamond.
-With luck on your side, you don't need a brain. -Giordano Bruno.
-The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. -Hector Berlioz.
-Here's the thing about luck… you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective. -Alice Hoffman.
-Ability is of little use without an opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte.
-We all have much luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want, or we get close enough. -Roald Dahl.
- "Luck" is the word that the bitter teach the ignorant. -Steve Maraboli.
-Lucky is for those who have nothing else. I wish you strength and courage. -Annette Marie.
-There are rules for luck. Not everything is a coincidence for the wise man. Luck can be supplemented by skill. -Baltasar Gracian.
- Luck is what we do, not what is imposed on us. You have shown initiative and it has nothing to do with luck. -George Bellairs.
- Luck is the residue of design. -John Milton.
-Good luck beats getting up early. -Irish proverb.
- Luck is the idol of the idle. -Proverb.
- Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.
-Good luck is the voluntary servant of an upright and energetic character, and the conscientious observance of duty. -James Russell Lowell.
"Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold." -Yiddish proverb.
-Throw a lucky man into the sea and he will come out with a fish in his mouth. -Arabic proverb.
-Man made an idol of luck as an excuse for his own unconsciousness. -Democritus.
-People always say that you are lucky when you have acted more sensitively than they have. -Anne Tyler.
- Luck is the savior of few, but a demon for the masses. -Michael Titorenko.
-Good luck is the twin brother of hard work.
-The best advice that good luck has for you is: “Don't look for me. I will find you ”. -Mark Benedict.
-The incapable revere luck and destiny. -Mason Cooley.
- Luck is not the hand of God. Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles after God has passed. -Kurt Vonnegut.
-The lucky people should hide and pray that the days of anger do not visit their homes. -Josephine Hart.
-We must believe in luck. If not, how do we explain the success of those we don't like? -Jean Cocteau.
-You don't have to justify a nice stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and thank. -Garrison Keillor.
-If it weren't for bad luck, we wouldn't have any luck at all. -Albert King.
-The foot of a rabbit can bring you good luck, but it did not bring any good luck to the rabbit. -Ambrose Bierce.
-To believe that there is no such thing as luck is very bad luck. Of the worst. Even more than stealing someone's four-leaf clover. -Caprice Crane.
- Luck has two sides. One that you can control, and one that you can control too. -Nick Offerman.
-A man forgets his good luck the next day, but remembers his bad luck until the following year. -Edgar Watson Howe.
-The worst cynicism is the belief in luck. -Joyce Carol Oates.
Luck is a discernible, yet mysterious, pattern of influences on your life path. -David Daniel Kennedy.
-It is a great skill to know how to guide your luck even when you are waiting for it. -Baltasar Gracián.
-Good luck and bad luck are two threads of the same fabric. -Sakura Tsukuba.
-Life goes on and on after luck has run out. Youth persists, unfortunately, long after one has ceased to be young. -Glenway Wescott.
- Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to have bought it. -Vera Nazarian.
-Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality. -Eliyahu Goldratt.
-Inspiration is one thing and you cannot control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means hard work. -Kevin Eubanks.
Luck is a very thin tightrope between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. -Hunter S. Thompson.
-In the real world, when the only thing you put at stake is your time or being embarrassed, the more things you do, the more opportunities you give luck to find you. -Scott Adams.
-I believe in luck, in destiny and in karma, and that all the energy that you go out to put into the world will return to you. -Chris Pine.
-The only good luck that many great men had has been to be born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. -Channing Pollock.
-You can't get lucky sitting on the couch with your arms folded doing nothing. You can only be lucky when you are prepared. -Nesta Jojoe Erskine.
-The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, as will your bad luck, so you have to take the good and the bad and move on. -Nick Cummins.
-What we call luck is the externalized inner man. We can make things happen to us. -Robertson Davies.
Luck was something that we either earned or tried through strength of character. You had to get to her honestly; you couldn't cheat. -Patrick Dewitt.
-When luck is on your side, this is not the time to be modest or shy. It is time to go for the greatest success you can possibly achieve. -Donald Trump.
- Luck affects everything; let your hook always be in the water; in the stream that you least expect, there will be a fish. -Ovid.
- Luck generally comes to those who seek it, and my notion is that it knocks, once in a lifetime, on everyone's door, but if it is not opened, it vanishes. -Charles Spurgeon.
-I broke a mirror in my house. Seven years of bad luck are supposed to follow, but my lawyer tells me he can get me five. -Steven Wright.
-True luck does not consist in keeping the best of the cards on the table; luck knowing when to get up and go home. -John Hay.
-I have realized that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, then take more opportunities. Be more active. Show up more often. -Brian Tracy.
-People usually emphasize that I am too lucky. Luck is only important to get the right time to sell yourself. After that you have to have talent and know how to use it. -Frank Sinatra.
-Many people work extremely hard, and although it is not their fault, whether due to bad luck, a wrong environment or unfortunate circumstances, they struggle to survive. -Justine Musk.
-Life is not easy. We all have problems, and even tragedies to handle, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is just a superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wits to deal with life's problems. -Joan Lowery Nixon.
-No one can be lucky all the time, so when your luck abandons you in some way, don't think that you have been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you are saving your share. -Piet Hein.
-I have come to realize that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the best of opportunities. -Timothy Zahn.