1. Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

- Serena Williams

2. Learn to recognize good luck when it’s waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

- Sally Koslow

3. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin

4. You don’t get lucky while sitting in the sofa with arms crossed doing nothing. You can be lucky only when you are prepared.

- Nesta Jojoe Erskine

5. Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.

- Alice Hoffman

6. My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it dependent on me to keep trying after I have failed.

- Mark Warner

7. Concentration attracts luck factor.

- Amit Ray

8. I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

- Timothy Zahn

9. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Iain Duncan Smith

11. Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

- Eliyahu Goldratt

12. I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

13. I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it

- Thomas Jefferson

14. Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

- Hunter S. Thompson

15. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

- Tig Notaro

16. People say they don’t believe in luck: luck is the reason the dinosaurs got wiped out and why human beings became the new dominant species on this planet.

- Stewart Stafford

17. The harder I work, the luckier I get.

- Samuel Goldwyn

18. The universe works in crazy ways. Your good luck will come in waves, and so does your bad, so you have to take the good with the bad and press forward.

- Nick Cummins

19. Luck is what we make it, not what is thrust upon us. You’ve shown initiative and it has nothing to do with luck.

- George Bellairs

20. Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

- Christopher Hitchens

21. Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.

- Buddha

22. The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

- Barbara Sher

23. I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

- Brian Tracy

24. Luck is a goddess not to be coerced and forcibly wooed by those who seek her favors. From such masterful spirits she turns away. But it happens sometimes that, if we put our hand in hers with the humble trust of a little child, she will have pity on us, and not fail us in our hour of need.

- P.G. Wodehouse

25. We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want – or near enough.

- Roald Dahl