Luck

(60 votes)   Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

ª Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American Humorist [Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams (BRILLIANT THOUGHTS ®) are individually protected by international copyright, and appear here by special permission. All rights reserved. Visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com]

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(33 votes)   I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.

Sam Shoen
American Businessman, Founder of U-Haul

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(262 votes)   The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates
1938-, American Author

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(165 votes)   There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(155 votes)   Good luck beats early rising.

Irish Proverbs
Sayings of Irish Origin

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(138 votes)   Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(125 votes)   Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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(122 votes)   Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(117 votes)   Luck's always to blame.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(114 votes)   All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Robert Collier
American Writer, Publisher

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(111 votes)   Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Persian Proverbs
Sayings of Persian Origin

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(108 votes)   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.

Natasha Josefowitz

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(104 votes)   In short, luck's always to blame.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(104 votes)   Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher

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(102 votes)   Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Natasha Josefowitz

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