Quotes About Preparation

Luck is good planning, carefully executed.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy it there.

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right.

Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.

Winning can be defined as the science of being totally prepared.

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

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

You can't catch trout with dry breeches.

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.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.