Preparation Quotes

No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it.

~ Moffat Machingura

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

~ Albert Szent-Györgyi

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

~ Alan Armstrong

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

~ Randy Pausch

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

~ William Shakespeare

There is a very real danger present when we suppress our feelings to act on inspiration in exchange for the “safety” of the status quo. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to live a more fulfilling and purpose driven life. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We risk sacrificing the beautiful blessing of finding a greater sense of meaning in our own lives.In short, we run the very real risk living a life of regret.

~ Richie Norton

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Once we get to Heaven we know everything there is to know. We remember every life we've ever lived. We recall everyone we've ever loved. There is much to know here, but there is not too much to learn. That's why we have to do our learning before we get here.

~ Kate Mcgahan

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

~ Thomas A. Edison

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

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.

~ Ari Herstand

When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.

~ John Wooden

Opportunity does not waste time with those who are unprepared.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.

~ Jyoti Arora

Better to wait actively than passively.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

~ Rory Miller

When you prepare, regularly work hard, create value, help others get what they want, and persevere... the life of your dreams is INEVITABLE.

~ Matthew Loop

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

~ Nabil Sabio Azadi

The angels came to tell me what I could expect and how to get where I needed to go. I was reassured that I would not have to cross the Bridge alone. There were so many things I did not yet know. I could feel my mental clarity leaving. I fixed my gaze upon her. I watched her as I left. It was like shutting the door of a beloved home for the last time. Like closing up camp for the season. One last look at the ocean before you must leave it behind with hopes of return but with no guarantee. You eventually have to turn away and look the other direction so that you can see where it is you are going.

~ Kate Mcgahan

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

~ Ze Frank

When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Preparation to success is hard work of daily practice with improvement.

~ Millie Dewitt

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

~ James D. Hornfischer

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Because the American people have traditionally taken a warlike, but not military, attitude to battle, and because they have always coupled a certain belligerence - no American likes being pushed around - with a complete unwillingness to prepare for combat, the Korean War was difficult, perhaps the most difficult in their history.

~ T.r. Fehrenbach

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

~ Jack Youngblood

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

~ Robert Ferrigno

When the evening comes, prepare yourself for the morrow ~Donald Pillai

~ Donald Pillai

Are you preparing yourself today for a better tomorrow? If not, how can you dare to live a better tomorrow?

~ Seema Brain Openers

Discipline is critical to proper preparation.

~ Ken Marlin

Preparation position you for prosperity.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

No matter how potent your talents are, they remain to be out of use until you take time to develop them to their optimum level. This calls for preparation. Through preparation, personal branding, consistent exposure and productive connections, you set up a condition for your dreams to flourish and bear fruits!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

~ Frank Herbert

But the truth is, there's little even the most organized people can do to prepare themselves for having children. They can buy all the books, observe friends and relations, review their own memories of childhood. But the distance between those proxy experiences and the real thing, ultimately, can be measured in light-years.

~ Jennifer Senior

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

~ Louis Pasteur