I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Stephen Leacock
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
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. — Seneca
I was in the right place at the right time. — Mel Allen
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
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
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
...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
Luck And Skill Quotes
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved. — Bill Russell
I happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Calvin Harris
This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name — Mike Shinoda
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term. — Joel Greenblatt
The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself. — Mary Engelbreit
Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. — Carl Icahn
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent. — Richie Benaud
Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck. — Buddha
I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
He’s very pretty. For a human.” “He’s very broken,” said Magnus. “Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before. — Cassandra Clare
Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person. — Abdul Kalam
When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. — DJ Khaled
Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top. — Misty Copeland
Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things — Brock Lesnar
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're not willing to do the work, don't complain about the result.
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
My success symbolizes loyalty, great friends, Dedication, hard work, routine builds character. In a world full of snakes, rats and scavengers — Nas
Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream. — Marlon Wayans
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. — Vince Lombardi
Talent And Hard Work Quotes
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. — Dean Martin
I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic. — Michael Jackson
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. — Patrick Süskind
Stay positive, work had and make it happen.
When did hard work become a skill? It doesn’t take talent to work hard, anyone can do it. Show up, work hard and listen. It takes a willingness to be dedicated, to improve, to be better. — Tim Grover
Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself. — Clinton Anderson
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! — Aaliyah
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working. — Scott Eastwood
I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind. — Michael Burry
Only in recent history has "working hard" signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse and, mostly, sprezzatura . — 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
No Such Thing As Luck Quotes
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. — George Lucas
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. — Richard Bach
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. — Richard Bach
Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason it will.
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. — Edward George BulwerLytton
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. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing. — Steve Harvey
There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr. — George S. Patton
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. — Denzel Washington
There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. — Unknown Author
Hard Work And Talent Quotes
Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals. — Zig Ziglar
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while. — Pearl Bailey
My advice is: Don't take yourself too seriously, laugh a lot, enjoy your time with family, and appreciate the unique talents of others. Trust in God, love your neighbor, say you're sorry, forgive, and work hard. — Willie Robertson
The separation of talent and skill is one of the largest misconceptions in modern society. Talent is something you born with, but skill can only be attained through Hours and Hours of hard work perfecting your talent as a craft. Which is why Talent will fail you without skill. — Will Smith
Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it. — Gary Vaynerchuk
In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent. — Pete Docter
Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. — Sydney J. Harris
I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone. — Elizabeth Gillies
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. — Margaret Thatcher
Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it. — Andrew Stanton
Fortune And Luck Quotes
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. — John L. Bates
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it. — Paul Newman
Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune. — Ludwig von Mises
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
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life. — Mark Twain
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live. — Henry Van Dyke
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. — Ovid
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. — Gail Devers
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. — Colin Powell
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks. — Elbert Hubbard
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence. — Mia Hamm
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. — Joshua Waitzkin
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. — Thomas J. Watson
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
Motivation And Hard Work Quotes
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren
If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams. — Jane Goodall
People make a big mistake when they say, 'I need to be motivated.' You motivate yourself. I might inspire somebody, but that person has to be motivated within themselves first. Look inside yourself, believe in yourself, put in the hard work, and your dreams will unfold. — Billy Mills
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential. — Bobby Orr
I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic. — Roman Abramovich
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
A lucky person is someone who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes — Greek Proverbs
Effective networking isn't a result of luck - it requires hard work and persistence. — Lewis Howes
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work. — Ozwald Boateng
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
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
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. — Thomas Jefferson
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 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
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
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
The harder you work, the luckier you become. — Carl Karcher
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck. — Anja Rubik
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
If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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
I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is. — David Lindsay-Abaire
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second — J. K. Rowling
Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. — Unknown
You need an immense amount of luck and an immense amount of perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale. You work as hard as you can for ten years so you finally have a chance to be lucky - It's really rare that somebody gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent, a lot of hard work. People that get lucky also tend to be really great looking. — Chris Gethard
It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. Meaning, get into a situation where you are with like-minded people who are just as passionate about something as you are, and then work really, really hard. — Kay Cannon
Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills. — Sheryl Sandberg
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