Quotes About Preparation

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line, they prepared for the worst.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

Always bring money along with your complaints.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training of a mere beginner.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.