Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

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.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

I never look at it as if any of my successes were given to me through fate. Getting record deals, making the songs I've made, having fans and working with the people I work with aren't chance. I know that dedication and work have gotten me to where I am and will get me to where I wanna go.

I've never had anything given to me. I've never had anything easy. My whole career has been that way.

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

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

It's not because I'm lucky. I work very hard.

I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.

It isn't always hard work that does the job.

You get what you're good enough to take.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

I have achieved everything through either hard work or luck.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues.

People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.