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 is opportunity and what isn’t. Lucille Ball
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? Jean Cocteau
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson
The luck of having a talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. Hector Louis Berlioz
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Robertson Davies
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it… The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaus Lec
Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Pierre Trudeau
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. Samuel Smiles
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck. F Scott Fitzgerald
Luck generally comes to those who look after 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 H Spurgeon
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky. Armand Hammer
Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning…You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning. Louis Nizer
The worst cynicism: a belief in luck. Joyce Carol Oates
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson