Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Action expresses priorities.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

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

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they are good—or there because they’re lucky.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.