Quotes About Luck And Success

#1. I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

Harrison Ford

#2. I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.

John Gokongwei

#3. Despite dissimilarities in our luck and success at looking after ourselves, we are all human beings.

Naguib Mahfouz

#4. Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Jimmy Buffett

#5. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

#6. 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

#7. I definitely think it [the key to maintain success] is a number of things. It's having the right people behind you. It's having the right work ethic. It's having the right mind-set. And it's also a little bit of luck.

Jordin Sparks

#8. Some famous person said, "Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck." I think that's a lot of it. It's being ready to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

Jessica Livingston

#9. But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida

#10. You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

Chris Gethard

#11. I realized that success is not a one-time act or a moment of luck and that "Overnight Success" is never true. Success is created through and by creating a habit caused by proper self-discipline.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#12. When I started 70 odd years ago I was told that to be a success you've got to have talent, personality and luck. I've had 99.9 percent luck and the other miniscule percentage would be having had the luck to have a little bit of talent, being able to stand upright and that's it. It's all luc.

Roger Moore

#13. 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

#14. Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

Dustin Moskovitz

#15. Luck tells us that we don't control our own fate, and that our path to success or failure is written by someone, or something, entirely outside ourselves.

Sophia Amoruso

#16. All were successful,and felt like failures.
Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:
None,
or maybe one:
Dumb luck

Joseph Heller

#17. Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Allowing yourself to be a conduit
for opportunity requires a brand new outlook on life. Lady fortune
cannot enter a locked door, you know. And contrary to that wellknown
saying, she has rarely been known to knock

Chris Murray

#19. Success is less about luck, and more about practice.

Robin Sharma

#20. Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

John C. Maxwell

#21. Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad - they're all constructs of your mind.

Tom Bergeron

#22. 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

#23. Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#24. You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

Greg Norman

#25. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck - and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

Michael Lewis

#26. Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

Ed Seykota

#27. If you want good luck; you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.

Temitope Owosela

#28. You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

Azim Premji

#29. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Bobby Jones

#30. Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Larry King

#31. 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

#32. As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Adolf Galland

#33. You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael Frayn

#34. Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

Nick Nolte

#35. Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

Chip Heath

#36. Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

Richard Jeni

#37. I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action.

Majid Kazmi

#38. So when they win, it's their hard work
And when they lose, it's their bad luck

Sanhita Baruah

#39. Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#40. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#41. Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.

Ellen McLaughlin

#42. Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.

Chalene Johnson

#43. 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

#44. My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#45. Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody's on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

Andrew Sharp

#46. Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.

S.A. Tawks

#47. Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to see his opportunity, the heart to prompt to well-timed action, the nerve to consummate a perfect work. And no tyrant-passion dragged him back; no enthusiasms, no foibles encumbered his way.

Charlotte Bronte

#48. Hard work, determination, and talent are key for any successful venture. But sometimes you need that fourth ingredient: dumb luck. Luck can never replace hard work and talent, but sometimes it can win out over both.

Abby Rosmarin

#49. What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

James Cook

#50. You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

Chris Metzler

#51. We get success by hard work and failure by hard luck

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#52. If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

Neal Boortz

#53. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.

Don Roff

#54. A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

Nolan Bushnell

#55. Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Ayn Rand

#56. I'd say it [success in NASCAR] is probably 50% car, 30% driver and 20% luck. When it comes to the driving, if the driver doesn't do his part, then it's just kind of like multiplying a negative times a positive: The end result is going to be a negative.

John Wes Townley

#57. Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

Richard Branson

#58. Luck is like a lift and hard is like the stairs, lift may fail but stairs will always gets you at the top

Amit Dhiman

#59. I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

Brooklyn Decker

#60. With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

Seth Troxler

#61. I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#62. Luck take a second look at what appears to be someone's good luck. You'll find not luck but preparation, planning, and success-producing thinking.

David J. Schwartz

#63. The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

Harrison Ford

#64. If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Fred Saberhagen

#65. I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

George Kennedy

#66. and two, success is often started by dumb luck, so play the hand that's dealt you and play it hard.

Harry Schuhmacher