James McBride Quotes

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.

My philosophy is, if you work as hard as you can, you give yourself as many opportunities as you can to be successful and lucky.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

Remember: when you knock on the door of Opportunity, it is Work who answers!

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

The philosophy of my life is the harder I worked, the luckier I got.

You don't get to where you are by just sitting on your butt and expecting it to come.

I never underestimate luck and working hard.

I feel that luck is a product of hard work.

You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen.

I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Care and diligence bring luck.

I was raised in the environment where it really wasn't about sittin' around dreaming all the time, it was about practicing and workin' really hard and if a dream ever came to you, you'd be prepared for that opportunity.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

I would say one must just keep working hard and not lose faith. You don't know when destiny is going to come your way, what opportunity comes your way.

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

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

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.

So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.