Making Your Own Luck Quotes

Whatever's meant to be, will be. I'm a firm believer in that and I'll make it work.

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

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

You make your own luck in life, so I'm not criticizing anyone - and I'm not even talking about myself for that - but I mean, every year, look at the team that wins. You can't control everything in a team sport. So I'm not going to cry about it, but yeah, there are moments where I'm like, "F - k." But I say it almost in an appreciative way, in a way where I realize it's great not everyone can do it. I wasn't fortunate enough to do it, but that's what makes winning a title so special.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

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

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.

I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!

I've got to literally write my own ticket.

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'

I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.

The harder you work, the luckier you get. I'm a big believer in that.

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

Sometimes you have to create your own chance.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.