Quotes with down-on-his-luck

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 3899.

• Luck generally comes to those who look for 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 Haddon Spurgeon
  English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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• Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

  Oprah Winfrey
  American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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• Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

  Natasha Josefowitz
   
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• Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

  Alfred Hitchcock
  English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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• Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

  Old Wives' Tales (1984)

  Susan M. Dodd
  American writer (1946 - )
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• Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

  Emily Dickinson
  American poet (1830 - 1886)
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• Luck is tenacity of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• Luck is the residue of design.

  Branch Rickey
  American baseball player (1881 - )
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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Elmer G. Letterman
   
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• Luck marches with those who give their very best

  H. Jackson Brown Jr
  American author (1940 - 2021)
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• Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

  Richard Cobden
   
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• 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
  American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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• Luck's always to blame.

  Jean de la Fontaine
  French writer (1621 - 1695)
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• Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

  John Dewey
  American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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• 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
  American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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• Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.

  Barbara Deming
  American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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• Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

  Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.

  Benjamin Watson
  American football player (1980 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• success-producing
• acknowledging
• intelligent
• superiority
• compliment
• impossible

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