Quotes About Effort

Champions make their own luck.

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

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

I don't believe in luck; it's just dedication to the technique plus good physical condition.

Anybody who is not pulling his weight is probably pushing his luck.

I find I'm luckier when I work harder.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Luck whines; labor whistles.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

Luck Doesn't exist, only hard (work) works

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.