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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances… Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Worship
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Paul Erdős1913–1996My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (1998) by Bruce Schechter, p. 99
- Thinking
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides481–407 BCPirithous.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides481–407 BCIphigenia in Tauris, ll. 721–722 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Change
Great treasure halls hath Zeus in heaven,
From whence to man strange dooms be given,
Past hope or fear.
And the end men looked for cometh not,
And a path is there where no man thought:
So hath it fallen here.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by ChorusIn context
- God
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune
William Faulkner1897–1962The Sound and the Fury (1929), June Second, 1910 (2 of 4)In context
- Time
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France1844–1924Les Dieux Ont Soif [The Gods Are Thirsty] (1912), ch. XV
- Virtue
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Lou Gehrig1903–1941Farewell speech on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, Yankee Stadium (4 July 1939)
- Baseball
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
- Success
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon1737–1794The History of the Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1776–1788), Chap. 71.
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 Goldwyn1882–1974
There is no man under the sun so fortunate as I
Brothers GrimmGrimms’ Fairy Tales (1812–1815), Hans in LuckIn context
- Happiness
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Armand Hammer1898–1990
- Work
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus484–425 BCThe Histories, Book 7, Ch. 49.