“Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.”
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
“The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.”
“Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.”
“I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.”
“The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.”
“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”
“Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving”
“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”
“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.”
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
“Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.”
“Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.”
“It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.”
“We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?”
“Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.”
“Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.”
“Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.”
“Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.”
“Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.”
“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
“Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.”
“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
“Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”