The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

The line rejects “luck” as mere accident and reframes it as the product of agency: preparation, initiative, and persistence create the conditions that later look like good fortune. Read this way, “best luck” is not what happens to you but what you engineer—through choices, discipline, and readiness to seize opportunities. Attributed to General Douglas MacArthur, the sentiment aligns with a common military and leadership ethic that prizes self-reliance and planning over fatalism. Its appeal lies in its motivational clarity: it comforts by implying control, while also demanding responsibility for outcomes.