Most of the time I have a pretty good memory, but right now, it’s failing me. So is Google
I wanted to tell you about a quote, and therefore wanted to tell you what the quote was, but I can’t remember it.
Instead, I’ll have to paraphrase.
It was some years ago, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (come on, it’s been ages since I dragged a Harry Potter reference onto the blog) had just been released or was about to be released.
There was a TV interview with JK Rowling and she was asked about how lucky she’d been with Harry Potter.
Her reply went along the lines of
It was luck that gave me the initial idea. Everything else was hard work.
We are often too quick to dismiss the success of others as luck, but also, people are sometimes too quick to dismiss their own success as luck.
It was nice to see someone standing up for their own hard work, and it always reminds me that I can’t sit here and wait for luck to happen. I have to go out there and make my own luck.
Another quote of similar sentiment is
The harder I work, the luckier I get
There is no such thing as good or bad luck, but there is such things as hard work and laziness.
Prompt: Discuss a Quote
Ramblings of a(nother) Frustrated Writer 
True! I don’t believe in luck but hard work and perseverance.