Luck

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LUCK: Luck is what happens when it meets preparation. (Unknown Source)

LUCK: Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

LUCK: Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

LUCK: The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. (UNKNOWN SOURCE)

LUCK: Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it; there will be fish. (Ovid, Roman poet, a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 BCE-17 AD)

LUCK: I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the badluck of the early worm. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

LUCK: The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French Romantic composer and symphony conductor, 1803-1869)

LUCK: If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. (Persian proverb)

LUCK: If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. (Russian proverb)

LUCK: Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

LUCK: Luck serves . . . as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

LUCK: Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

LUCK: The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. (B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954)

LUCK: The champion makes his own luck. (Red Blaik, U.S. football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and U.S. Army officer, 1897-1989)

LUCK: Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Sophocles, one of three ancient Greek tragedians - along with Aeschylus and Euripides - whose plays have survived, 496-406 BCE)

LUCK: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

LUCK: The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. (James B. Hill, U.S. inventor, 1856-1945)

LUCK: Chance favors those in motion. (Dr. James H. Austin, U.S. neurologist and author of books on the human brain and the practice of meditation, 1928-2017)

LUCK: A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield, U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination 1831-1881 )

LUCK: You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. (Henry Moore, English artist who is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures located around the world, 1898-1986)

LUCK: Luck is good planning, carefully executed. (Unknown source)

LUCK: I think that one can have luck if one creates an atmosphere of spontaneity. (Federico Fellini, Italian film director and screenwriter, 1920-1993)

LUCK: Motivation triggers luck. (Mike Wallace, U.S. journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality, 1918-2012)

LUCK: Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. (Susan M. Dodd, U.S. fiction writer, Born 1847)

LUCK: Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten! (Arab proverb)