Quotes about preparation

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.

— Muhammad Ali

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

— Raymond Berry

Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.

— Swami Brahmanada

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.

— Andrew Carnegie

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

— Dale Carnegie

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

— James Carse

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

— Edgar Cayce

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

— Fred Couples

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

— Wayne Dyer

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Elbert Hubbard

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

— Jackie Joyner Kersee

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

— Tom Landry

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— George Macdonald

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

— Orison Swett Marden

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

— Roger Maris

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

— Edwin Markham

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

— Joe Namath

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

— Merlin Olsen

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.

— Louis Pasteur

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

— Joe Paterno

Be Prepared.

— Lord Baden Powell

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

— Joe Poyer

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

— Sri Ramakrishna

If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.

— Robert J. Ringer

Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.

— Summer Sanders

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.

— Robert H. Schuller

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

— David Searles

Trust in your preparation.

— Davie Sheppard

You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

— Frank Shorter

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

— Sun Tzu

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.

— Source Unknown

Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.

— Source Unknown

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

— Lily Walters

The man who is prepared has his battle half fought.

— Miguel De Cervantes

The pain in proper preparation is minor compared to the regret in losing the battle

— Warren Verreynne