Fortune Favors the Prepared Quotes

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

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

When the occasion arrives so does the proverb.

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.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

No victor believes in chance.