Get your game face on with these good luck quotes

 

Reading or hearing something said by someone who you hold in high regard often offers perspective and is a good motivator. Renowned neurologist and found of psychoanalysis noted that sameness is boring and change keeps us alive. Meanwhile, according to Maslow’s self-actualisation theory, striving to reach our inner potential could result in success. It’s the sentiment and words of Freud, Maslow and others that can serve as excellent motivation. And here are some more. Quotes from famous people or sayings from superstar athletes can be really uplifting and inspire you to great things.

 

Good luck quotes from famous South Africans

From late national president Nelson Mandela and comedian Trevor Noah, to lead singer Dave Matthews and more – cosmopolitan South Africans have said plenty of inspirational things over the years.

 

 “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

Nelson Mandela

 

“If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.”

Trevor Noah

 

"South Africa gives me a perspective of what’s real and what’s not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn’t take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.”

Dave Matthews

 

 

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

Desmond Tutu

 

“You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.”

Charlize Theron

 

“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now.”

Thabo Mbeki

 

“A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.”

Mark Shuttleworth

 

 

“Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.”

Candice Swanepoel

 

“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”

Desmond Tutu

 

"We are not being arrogant or complacent when we say that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.”

Thabo Mbeki

 

Good luck quotes from other celebrities

Actresses and politicians – and all in between – have uttered several motivational words. There is something for everyone to draw inspiration.

 

“Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.”

Kevin Eubanks

 

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

Eliyahu Goldratt

 

“Good luck needs no explanation.”

Shirley Temple

 

 

“Good luck is a residue of preparation.”

Jack Youngblood

 

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”

Channing Pollock

 

“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

 

“It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.”

Frank A. Clark

 

“Luck is everything. My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”

Alfred Hitchcock

 

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

 

 

Good luck quotes from more historically great people

When revered people like Albert Einstein, the Dalai Lama and Mark Twain have something to say about motivation and good luck, it’s only right that we take note.

 

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

Roger Staubach

 

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

The Dalai Lama

 

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

Vince Lombardi

 

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

George Eliot

 

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."

Seth Godin

 

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

Albert Einstein

 

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

Mark Twain

 

 

 

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

Stephen Covey.

 

"The secret to success is constancy of purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli.

 

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

Booker T. Washington.

 

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

Charles Swindoll.

 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

Henry David Thoreau.

 

"One man with courage makes a majority."

Andrew Jackson.

 

So there you have it. A long line of sayings from others who have forged a positive path. There is a lot to be said about exuding positive vibes and enjoying good luck - and now is as good a time as any to start. You are welcome to test your luck with Lottoland and stand a chance to win with the US Powerball and other great main prize draws from around the world.

 

Sources

https://www.psychologytoday.com

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