Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Luck plays an important role in Bollywood. We all work really hard to earn success but our luck has to be on the right side, especially from where I come from.

You can win the lottery but you need to buy the ticket first. And in life, you can get lucky but you need to work hard and be ready first.

Sometimes when you gamble, you get up from the table with a fortune.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.

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.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

People tend to believe that good fortune consists of equal parts talent, hard work, and sheer luck. It's hard to deny the roles of the latter two. As to talent, I would only say it consists primarily in finding the right moment to step in.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.