Definition of Luck

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Definition of Luck

Luck

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill.

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Luck Quotations

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Tony Robbins

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway

Luck Translations

luck in Afrikaans is geluk, kans, lot
luck in Danish is held
luck in Dutch is bof, mazzel, geluk, buitenkansje
luck in Finnish is osa, mahdollisuus
luck in French is chance, sort
luck in Hungarian is szerencse
luck in Latin is fors fortis, fortuna, fors-itis
luck in Norwegian is hell, lykke
luck in Portuguese is sorte
luck in Spanish is felicidad, chance
luck in Swedish is tur

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