Quotes About Opportunity

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

The champion makes his own luck.

Luck is the residue of good planning.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.