Kate DiCamillo Quotes

Money does not choose people.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don't miss opportunities.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.

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

Things culminate when they have to. Work comes to you when you deserve to do it.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

I just think I got lucky. Every step of the way, I've gotten lucky with everything I've gotten to do and be a part of.

I hate that word — 'lucky.' It cheapens a lot of hard work

I don't really push myself upon people. I don't have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it's meant to happen. It's happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

See how the Fates their gifts allot, For A is happy-B is not. Yet B is worthy, I dare say, Of more prosperity than A.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Luck is created by the prepared.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.