Patti Smith Quotes

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

One must not expect anything in these times, but be ready for everything.

You just always have to be ready. You never know when your number is going to be called.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

My mother would say, 'Stay ready so you don't have to get ready.' I spent a lot of my early years preparing for beautiful moments that have unfolded in my life so far.

People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.

The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.

The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Chance favors those who are prepared.

When one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.