116 Hard Luck Quotes To Cheer You Up When Life Gets Tough

Following is our list of hard luck quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about good luck and hard work.

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Famous Hard Luck Quotes

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. — Harry Golden

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

A stout heart breaks bad luck. — Miguel de Cervantes

I'm the luckiest unlucky person. — Tig Notaro

Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. — Sophocles

Good luck comes in slender currents, misfortune in rolling tides — Irish Proverbs

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid — John Wayne

Luck marches with those who give their very best — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting — Gregory David Roberts

Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers. — CM Punk

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. — Lucille Ball

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. — Eddie Slovik

Good luck lies in odd numbers. - William Shakespeare

Good luck lies in odd numbers. — William Shakespeare

Luck is my middle name. Mind you, my first name is Bad. — Terry Pratchett

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. - John Wayne

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. — John Wayne

Short Hard Luck Quotes

  • Even the losers get lucky sometimes! — Tom Petty
  • Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J. Peter
  • The harder you work, the luckier you get. — Gary Player
  • Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. — John Wayne
  • Luck is believing you're lucky. — Tennessee Williams
  • Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
  • Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. — John Wayne
  • The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. — Douglas MacArthur
  • Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. — Orson Welles
  • Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. — Yiddish Proverbs

Hard Luck Image Quotes

Hard luck quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Work Hard Luck Quotes

Good things come to those who hustle — Chuck Noll

The harder I work the more I live. - George Bernard Shaw

The harder I work the more I live. — George Bernard Shaw

A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes — Greek Proverbs

Hard luck quote Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise

I was in the right place at the right time. — Mel Allen

Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence. — Lewis Howes

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go. — Bill Smith

Hard luck quote Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

Until you work as hard as those you admire, don't explain away their success as luck. — James Clear

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance. — Mia Hamm

Success is not about luck, it’s about hard work and perseverance. — Steven Bartlett

Good Luck And Hard Work Quotes

Good things come to those who initiate. — Susan RoAne

Hard work is what keeps the ship moving. — Kevin Eubanks

I dont rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success. — John Gokongwei

Hard luck quote You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it. — Jerry Reed

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work. — Kevin Eubanks

Hard luck quote If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune. — Christiaan Huygens

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed. — Mark Warner

A big part of winning is having lots of good luck. And I think a good competitor makes his own luck. That's why he is a winner. Luck to me is lots of determination lots of hard work, faith in myself, and in God. — Lane Frost

Not Luck But Hard Work Quotes

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work. — Michael Crichton

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. — Iain Duncan Smith

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible. — James Frey

Hard luck quote Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck. — Ian Rankin

I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be. — Sam Abell

Luck And Hard Work Quotes

Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work. — Dustin Moskovitz

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work. — Ozwald Boateng

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream. — Janet Jackson

Hard luck quote Work hard in silence. Let your succes be the noise.
Work hard in silence. Let your succes be the noise.

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. — Bill Gold

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. — Lucille Ball

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson

Hard luck quote There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there a
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things. — Kevin Systrom

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Hardship Quotes

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W. E. B. Du Bois

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C. S. Lewis

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. — C. S. Lewis

Hard luck quote Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.

Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. Some mountains are higher than others. Some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks but you cannot let them stop you. Even on the steepest road you must not turn back. — Muhammad Ali

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships. — Charles Stanley

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. - Coolio

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow. — Coolio

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain. — Shams Tabrizi

Get into the habit of singing a tune. It will give you new life and fill you with joy. Get into the habit of dancing. It will displace depression and dispel hardship. — Nachman of Breslov

Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success! — Phil Heath

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More Hard Luck Quotes

Hard luck quote It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.
It's hard to sleep when your heart is at war with your mind.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne

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. — Victor Cherbuliez

It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life, starts with goodbye. — Carrie Underwood

I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get. — Ingemar Stenmark

If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible. — Margaret Heffernan

There is a jewish strategy. The great part of the jewish strategy is that most of it is pretty much open source. If you want to push your children really, really hard to survive and if you want to tell them You've got a dragon breathing fire down the back of your neck because you've always been oppressed and you never know when you have to leave very quickly on short notice, you can duplicate the jewish experience. Good luck! — Eric Weinstein

There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it. — Henry Sy

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten. — Don Williams

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned. — Frank A. Clark

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. — John Dryden

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck. — Bryan Cranston

I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future. — Nina Dobrev

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. — Lucille Ball

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood. — Mao Zedong

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up. — Steve Jobs

You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us. — Manny Pacquiao

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