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Other quotes by Thomas Fuller.
- "Care and diligence bring luck."
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Other quotes about: hope good Other quotes by Office Space.
- "Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well."
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Other quotes about: rest Other quotes by Kathleen Norris.
- "If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."
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Other quotes about: thinking think wish look Other quotes by Seve Ballesteros.
- "I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you."
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Other quotes about: little life government Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.
- "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
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Other quotes about: find work believe hard Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
- "I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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Other quotes about: mother good Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.
- "Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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Other quotes about: believe people person look Other quotes by Signs.
- "Graham See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles Or do you believe that people just get lucky Or, look at the question this way Is it possible that there are no coincidences"
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Other quotes about: right answer law Other quotes by Raymond Chandler.
- "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
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Other quotes about: happy Other quotes by Euripides.
- "Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
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Other quotes about: day first Other quotes by Henry Van Dyke.
- "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck"
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Other quotes about: first men man women woman husband wife Other quotes by Oscar Wilde.
- "When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs."
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Other quotes about: money right old day never people house good kids today service look Other quotes by Casino.
- "Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing"
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Other quotes about: work hard Other quotes by Plato.
- "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
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Other quotes about: never people Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire.
- "It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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Other quotes about: good country Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.
- "'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'"
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Other quotes about: think men rule Other quotes by Adolf Hitler.
- "What luck for rulers that men do not think."
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Other quotes about: alone Other quotes by Orison Swett Marden.
- "The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone."
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Other quotes about: find work believe hard Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.
- "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
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Other quotes about: find work hard Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
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Other quotes about: work hard Other quotes by McAlexander.
- "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
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Other quotes about: believe success Other quotes by Jean Cocteau.
- "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like"
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Other quotes about: work life success hard Other quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar.
- "I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck."
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Other quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden.
- "Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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Other quotes about: prejudices work society Other quotes by Edward C. Banfield.
- "Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."
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Other quotes about: love words Other quotes by James Arthur Baldwin.
- "Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance."
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Other quotes about: work something never people hard Other quotes by Lucille Ball.
- "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."
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Other quotes about: happy making Other quotes by Lawrence Peter Berra.
- "I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
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Other quotes about: hate mind Other quotes by Eubie.
- "Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."
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Other quotes about: small old time life young Other quotes by Hal.
- "Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa If he still survives, he must be hiding in the small towns. You sure don't see him very often in the big city. The big-city Grandpa has gone big time. ... He is the life of every party, and out to prove he is just as young as he ever was. A grandchild who makes the mistake of calling him 'Gramps' is lucky if he isn't rewarded by a quick kick in the stomach."
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Other quotes about: friendship friend think friends Other quotes by Barbara Bush.
- "You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
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Other quotes about: work hard Other quotes by Samuel Goldwyn.
- "The harder I work, the luckier I get."
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Other quotes about: live time Other quotes by Agatha Christie.
- "I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that."
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Other quotes about: work believe hard Other quotes by Coleman Cox.
- "I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have."
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Other quotes about: happy Other quotes by Robertson Davies.
- "Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
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Other quotes about: work day think today hard look Other quotes by Jerry Della Femina.
- "I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune."
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Other quotes about: work people service Other quotes by Harrison Ford.
- "On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky."
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Other quotes about: think man Other quotes by Samuel Goldwyn.
- "I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
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Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Lefty Gomez.
- "I'd rather be lucky than good."
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Other quotes about: right good need answer Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling."
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Other quotes about: think saint Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.
- "Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing."
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Other quotes about: work something time people life success past mind law Other quotes by John W. Hanley.
- "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."
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Other quotes by John Hay.
- "True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home."
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Other quotes about: bad good Other quotes by Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood.
- "Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."
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Other quotes about: hope happiness live light love Other quotes by Saint Adela Rogers Johns.
- "Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."
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Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by Garrison Keillor.
- "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
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Other quotes about: find work believe hard Other quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock.
- "I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
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Other quotes about: hope man wife Other quotes by Ogden Nash.
- "An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks."
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Other quotes about: born Other quotes by Assyrian Proverb.
- "If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs."
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Other quotes about: bad think good Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- "I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm."
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Other quotes about: bad good Other quotes by Don Schula.
- "Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck."
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Other quotes about: believe day people life future Other quotes by Howard Schultz.
- "I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision."
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Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Samuel Smiles.
- "It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application."
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Other quotes by The Talmud.
- "Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit."
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Other quotes by Brian Tracy.
- "I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
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Other quotes about: find friend hard Other quotes by Unknown.
- "A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have."
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Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Unknown.
- "You never have a chance for your luck to operate if you don't take risks."
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Other quotes about: men good women Other quotes by Charlotte Whitton.
- "Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult."
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Other quotes by Earl Wilson.
- "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
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Other quotes about: man women Other quotes by P. G. Wodehouse.
- "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."
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Other quotes by James A. Garfield.
- "A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
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Other quotes about: change Other quotes by Bret Harte.
- "The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."
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Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Andrew W. Mathis.
- "It is bad luck to be superstitious."
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Other quotes about: brother think people family Other quotes by Trey and Matt Stone Parker.
- "I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family."
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Other quotes about: experience right silence Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.
- "Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky."
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Other quotes by Anne Tyler.
- "People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
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Other quotes about: believe men Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
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Other quotes by Ernest Hemingway.
- "'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood."
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Other quotes about: friend success love friends fact Other quotes by Erica Jong.
- "Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends."
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Other quotes about: find never important Other quotes by Vince Lombardi.
- "But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second."
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