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Quotes About Preparation

Fight only after creating conditions for victory.
~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
~ Biz Stone
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation
~ Zig Ziglar
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
~ James Stockdale
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
~ James A. Yorke
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
~ Bobby Unser
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
~ William James
Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.
~ Branch Rickey
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
~ Muhammad Ali
Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.
~ Paul Brown
Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?
~ Tony Dungy
Success in battle is not a function of how many show up, but who they are.
~ Robert H. Barrow
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
~ Ed Macauley
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
~ Alexandra Ripley
You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.
~ Derek Jeter
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
~ Austin O'Malley
Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
~ Brian Owen
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
~ R. K. Milholland
The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.
~ Kaka
Character + Chance = Success
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure.
~ Timothy Keller
Success is the residue of planning.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
~ Michelle Kwan