Top 100 Success Luck Quotes
#1. Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.
Dustin Moskovitz
#2. it's good to fail sometimes.When you fail, you have to prove yourself. That's often the best thing than can happen, because then you're sure your success isn't just luck. - Barbara Walters
The Editors Of O, The Oprah Magazine
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. My success has been as full of luck as a crapshooter's dream.
Adolphe Menjou
#9. You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.
Chris Gethard
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.
Donald Trump
#13. As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
Theodore Roosevelt
#14. Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
John C. Maxwell
#15. Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.
Grant Cardone
#16. What's success? Having lots of money? No, this is part of the practicalities of life. It is not success. Success is having two daughters who grow into fine ladies, two boys who grow into fine gentlemen. Success is waking up next to the loved one dumbstruck at your luck of meeting them.
Carol Vorvain
#17. I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau
#18. 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
#19. Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.
Adam Copeland
#20. 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
#21. Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.
Neil Gaiman
#22. If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
Charles Kettering
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
Lorii Myers
#26. 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
#27. Success is less about luck, and more about practice.
Robin Sharma
#28. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau
#29. 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
#30. I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
John Gokongwei
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
#34. 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
#36. Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
#37. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson
#38. You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
Ian Rankin
#40. Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.
Gail Carson Levine
#44. It is not the luck which brings success. It is the strong will
Rajasaraswathii
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it.
Leon M. Lederman
#50. Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.
Paul Harvey
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Despite dissimilarities in our luck and success at looking after ourselves, we are all human beings.
Naguib Mahfouz
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. When people succeed, it is because of hard work. Luck has nothing to do with success.
Diego Maradona
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Be free, work hard, be brave, good luck will find you.
Auliq Ice
#62. Luck is when those who are prepared take advantage of the moment.
Raymond E. Feist
#63. 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
#65. Good luck is a sham. True success requires sacrifice.
Rick Riordan
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing.
Lucian
#69. A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success;
Daniel Kahneman
#70. When luck hits you hard with Failure; hit it back softly with your Success!
Naila Tennyson
#71. 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
#72. We are extraordinarily reluctant to admit that luck plays a part in business success.
Stephen Bungay
#73. Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
#74. 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
#75. I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
Arthur Hailey
#76. 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
#77. I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
Ashwin Sanghi
#78. 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
#80. If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
Robert Koch
#82. If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
#83. My recipe for success is chance, basically. Just luck. It's a miracle that people still hire me after some of the stuff I've gotten away with. Honestly!
Johnny Depp
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#87. 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
#88. The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
Alice James
#89. LUCK is a word used by people who did not take action when greatest opportunities were presented. They use it to describe the success of those who have acted.
Some use FAITH to describe what others call LUCK
Elie Jerome
#90. 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
#91. Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.
Richard Branson
#92. 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
#93. luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
Daniel Kahneman
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. 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
#98. Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.
Felix Rohatyn
#99. 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
#100. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
Anthony Doerr
