Preparation Quotes

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

We are never prepared for what we expect.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

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

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation

It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved "” and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

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

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Nothing comes from nothing.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

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

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Education is a social process ... Education is growth.... Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

It's in the preparation — in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.