Logo
Quote by Richard Cobden
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. - Richard Cobden

Luck relies on chance, labor on character. – Richard Cobden

Other quotes by Richard Cobden

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. – Richard Cobden

Category:
fitness
Author
Richard Cobden
Read Quote

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance – the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. – Richard Cobden

Category:
Peace
Author
Richard Cobden
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Luck
category

I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me – Napoleon Bonaparte

Category:
Luck

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck — who keeps right on going — is the man who is there when the good luck comes — and is ready to receive it. – Robert Collier

Category:
Luck

The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord. – Bible

Category:
Luck

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. – Mark Twain

Category:
Luck

Random Quotes

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. – Sophocles

Category:
War

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. – Charles Stanley

Category:
Knowledge

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didnt like what our parents had. – Lynette Fromme

Category:
relationship

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley

Category:
Hypocrisy