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Life & Wisdom Quote by Tony Robbins

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

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Robbins turns “luck” from a mystical lottery ticket into a piece of personal equipment: something you assemble. The line is built like a formula, and that’s the point. “Preparation” sounds virtuous and controllable; “opportunity” sounds random and external. Put them together and you get “offspring” - a sly biological metaphor that makes luck feel inevitable, almost natural, once the right conditions exist. It’s motivational rhetoric wearing the costume of common sense.

The intent is clear: redirect attention away from envy and toward agency. If luck is a child of your habits, then the world’s winners aren’t necessarily chosen; they’re ready. That framing is central to Robbins’s self-help empire, which sells the idea that internal rewiring (discipline, mindset, performance routines) can beat external chaos. He’s offering a narrative that’s easy to carry into a job interview, a startup pitch, a comeback story.

The subtext is where it gets sharper. This is optimism with an edge: a way to morally upgrade success and quietly demote failure. If luck requires preparation, then the unlucky can be read as unprepared. That can be empowering, or it can be a subtle form of blame, especially in a culture where opportunity is not distributed evenly. The quote works because it’s elastic: it flatters strivers with control while still nodding to randomness. It’s not denying chance; it’s recruiting chance to validate effort.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Robbins, Tony. (2026, January 16). The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-meeting-of-preparation-with-opportunity-137798/

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Robbins, Tony. "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-meeting-of-preparation-with-opportunity-137798/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-meeting-of-preparation-with-opportunity-137798/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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