Quotes about luck
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I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin FranklinWhen you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the LearnedLuck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Euripides481–407 BCPirithous.The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 68- Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 71.
Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.
Milan Kundera1929–2023The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Pt. 2, ch. 9
Anatole France1844–1924Les Dieux Ont Soif [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
