Opportunity Preparation Quotes

Rarely, I discovered, does a minister have the opportunity to get as close to his congregation as can a chaplain to men at war. Seemingly unimportant problems, which in normal life would never even come to the clergyman's attention, can seriously affect the soldiers' morale. For men whose every living moment is a preparation for battle, a preparation perhaps for death, the chaplain can become a link to family and home. But the chaplain cannot become that important link to family and home by moving among the men with folded hands and bowed head quoting Scriptures at the drop of a hat. He must share with the men their day-today experiences and enter into them fully. Before he can gain the soldiers' confidence in him as a chaplain, he must gain their confidence and respect in him as a man. Visiting the men in their quarters below deck became one of my regular duties. Down below in the hold of the ship was my 'pastorate,' and almost daily I spent as much time there as possible. ~ Chaplain William C. Taggart

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability.
Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen. ~ Shiv Khera

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words. ~ Lilian Katz

Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity."4 ~ Jon Acuff

I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Bad luck is when opportunity is in parallel lines with your preparation and action. ~ Nabil Basma

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. ~ Richard Branson

Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony. ~ Phil Cousineau

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation. ~ Denzel Washington

Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don't want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared. Determination and motivation will put you on the right track. You've got the passion, that driving desire to be successful. But, you must take certain steps to put you in a position to be readily available for the reward. ~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call. ~ Jyoti Arora

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

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment. ~ Sara Blakely

There was no luck. There was only preparation meets opportunity, and recognizing the latter and knowing when to seize it was ninety percent of any great success. ~ Game Of Champions

Your first impressions will often occur within a limited window of opportunity - and if you blow it - the opportunity may be lost forever. ~ Susan C. Young

If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed ... My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel ... uneducated. ~ Channing Tatum

When Opportunity meets Preparation she greets her with open arms and they both say in unison, "Let's do this! ~ Sanjo Jendayi

Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it. ~ Tom Black

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living. ~ Jack White

Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck. ~ Jane Espenson

When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare. ~ John Wooden

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius

There's nothing in the world worse than having an opportunity that you're not prepared for. Good luck usually follows the collision of opportunity and preparation - it's a result of that collision. You've got to be prepared. So, make your mistakes now and make them quickly. If you've made the mistakes, you know what to expect the next time. That's how you become valuable. ~ Quincy Jones

Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done. ~ Pappy Boyington

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. ~ Virginia Woolf

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice. ~ Neal Boortz

Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil - or opportunity - life's vicissitudes bring. ~ Daniel Goleman

Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer. ~ Temeko Richardson

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made. ~ Orison Swett Marden

We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck. ~ Michael Mann

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity. ~ Seneca The Younger

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ~ Amy Hempel

If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I'd choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless. ~ Saji Ijiyemi

I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared? ~ Earl Nightingale

It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time. ~ Sam Kass

I've learned the truth in these sayings: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation' and 'The right project will find you'. ~ Tony Oller

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability ... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. ~ Thomas A. Edison

Proper preparation ensures that when an opportunity is presented to you, you are ready to seize it and excel. ~ Tyler Basu

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ~ Bobby Unser

Great athletes practice, train, study, and develop. So do great learners. As students empowering ourselves with knowledge, what can we learn from Olympic-caliber athletes about success, and how to achieve it?
1.Preparation = Success!
"If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail." - Mark Spitz, Gold Medalist, Swimming
2.Learning is lifelong
"Never put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, Gold Medalist, Swimming
3.Failure is opportunity
"One shouldn't be afraid to lose" - Oksana Baiul, Gold Medalist, Figure Skating
4.The only person who can stop you is yourself
"This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows." - Olga Korbut, Gold Medalist, Gymnastics
5.Learning is fun!
"If you're not having fun, then what the hell are you doing?" - Allison Jones, six-time Paralympian
6.You have to be in it to win it
"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle." - Sanya Richards-Ross, Gold Medalist, Track & Field
There are always new skills to learn, new challenges to overcome, new ways to succeed. The only guarantee of failure is if you don't get started in the first place. ~ Udacity

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky. ~ Oprah Winfrey

What is luck, my friend?" Julian replied kindly. "It is nothing more than the marriage of preparation with opportunity. ~ Robin S. Sharma

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. ~ Pierre Trudeau

Someone once told me: 'Luck is when opportunity meets preparation'. And that's what I really feel with my music. I've worked really, really hard on it. It was like, 'this is really what I want to do.. what do I have to do to make it work?' ~ Erica Packer

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. ~ Oprah Winfrey

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. ~ Roger Maris

If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a ~ George S. Clason

I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity. ~ Hilary Swank

I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation. ~ Scarlett Johansson