Quotes About Luck Hard Work

#1. The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Dennis Lehane

#2. 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

#3. I don't want to wake up dead tommorrow and realize I didn't even try.

Luck my ass! Luck is just another word for hard work and an open mind.

Ryan E. Day

#4. I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

Prabal Gurung

#5. 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

#6. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

Janet Jackson

#7. 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

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

Dustin Moskovitz

#9. I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.

Anja Rubik

#10. highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and luck.

Adam M. Grant

#11. With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out.

Rebel Miller

#12. I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.

Neil Diamond

#13. Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry Cantrell

#14. My skills are unique. Forged over a lifetime of dedication and hard work. It is not talent. It is not luck. It is nothing less than perseverance that makes me the best at what I do. For

A. Zavarelli

#15. Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along
or don't.

Harrison Ford

#16. You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Greg Lake

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

Ravi Ranjan Goswami

#18. 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

#19. If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.

Emily Giffin

#23. I use three main tools in writing: instinct, hard work and dumb luck. Dumb luck is missing a train and, while you wait for the next one, writing a key word, line or verse. When this happens often enough you begin to believe in Fate.

David Massengill

#24. I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you down if you buy yourself a $300,000 car. They're likely to say: "Well, you probably worked hard for it. Good luck to you."

Simon Cowell

#25. I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

Thomas Jefferson

#26. 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

#27. People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

Jack McDevitt

#28. 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

#29. As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Dexter Fletcher

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

John Gokongwei

#31. I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.

Ron Conway

#32. Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

#33. Luck is a point where hard work meets the opportunity

Firoz Thairinil

#34. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Karen Karbo

#35. 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

#36. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.

Enaka Yembe

#37. As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

Gwen Moore

#38. Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

Steven David Levine

#39. Grownups have it in them to be creative, and sometimes, with the help of ambition, hard work, and a bit of luck they actually are, but being grownups, they have no sooner created some epoch-making invention than they become a slave to it.

Gunter Grass

#40. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Ed Bradley

#41. 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

#42. It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

Jill Douglas

#43. Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but - this was the dirty secret - you needed luck.

Allegra Goodman

#44. 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 opportunity is and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

#45. I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Maria Sharapova

#46. 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

#47. A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Guy Kawasaki

#48. 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

#49. When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.

Diego Maradona

#50. We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and the random. We don't want to admit it, but we are controlled by luck, by timing, by fate.

Harlan Coben

#51. Hard work will have the last smile in its race against luck.

Sandeep Kumar

#52. 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

#53. Be free, work hard, be brave, good luck will find you.

Auliq Ice

#54. I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

J.K. Rowling

#55. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Joseph Addison

#56. There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Jason Calacanis

#57. The grass is never greener on the other side. You can only hope that with enough hard work, time, and luck that yours will become whatever shade the spray paint bottle said it would.

Lauren Burd

#58. If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

Nolan Bushnell

#59. 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

#60. At work, he pretended every woman customer was a floozy with a hard-luck story who only needed a good slapping.

Tim Dorsey

#61. I think to be successful you have to work really hard but you also have to have a little bit of luck.

Tom Petty

#62. Luck Doesn't exist, only hard (work) works

Serge Nubret

#63. For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

Kellin Quinn

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

Jerry Reed

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

Sanhita Baruah

#66. 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

#67. It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

Haruki Murakami

#68. When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Daniel Radcliffe

#69. I probably get a deeper satisfaction of having taken a very good photograph than of having written something very good, a very good story. Maybe it's because the element of magic is so present in a good photograph - luck and magic, but also hard work and being ready and all that.

Teju Cole

#70. Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

Patrick Duffy

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#72. I am not smart, I pay attention.
I am not considerate, I listen.
I am not patient, I make time.
I'm not lucky, I work hard.

Mark W. Boyer

#73. My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

Naveen Jain

#74. I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

Emraan Hashmi

#75. Thinking is free, planning is also free, but action taking is not free; you have a price to pay. Success is not luck; it demands work ... hard work of course!

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Iain Duncan Smith

#77. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

#78. 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

#79. I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#80. We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#81. I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Sandra Bullock

#82. When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Andrew Luck

#83. Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?'

Erica Packer

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. I'm just living my life. I'm incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I've had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

Anna Paquin