Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

Preparation meets opportunity, and that causes success if you're prepared to do your job and you practice a lot, more times than not you're going to be successful.

Potential is just potential until you can pull it off, and you need to show up ready to exercise the plan in mind. I've always come from that place in everything I've ever done.

Step by step I'm getting my opportunities and what's important for me is to be prepared to show my best whenever possible.

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

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

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.

The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

You must be willing to do things today others won't do, in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have