Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn

In the long run, you make your own luck -- good, bad, or indifferent.
Loretta Lynn

Luck never gives; it only lends.
Swedish Proverb

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
Douglas MacArthur

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Bette Davis

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

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 is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.
Oprah Winfrey

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Hunter S. Thompson

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.
Whoopi Goldberg

All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.
Mark Cuban

As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.
Teddy Roosevelt

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV)

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler

Luck can only get you so far.
J.K. Rowling

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