Quotes about preparation

The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.

A violinist fiddled.With strings resined for winter.Summer's light splintered.

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers.

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

Everything you are called to do has already been prepared for you by God, He just needs your obedience

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best.

No one's ever really ready for a troll.

pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance

Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.

Aspirations without preparations will simply give you life full of frustrations. Develop yourself today!

The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared.

If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...

Sic vis pacem para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war.

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.

Sometimes, getting comfortable with the circumstance is the only preparation you need to deal with it.

Preparation is a process.

No one is born successful, success requires preparation

Success comes from developing a strong inner character

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

Worrying paralyzes progress; prayer, preparation and persistence ensures it.

You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

Don’t depend on the thoughts “I need more time”. There are only 24 hours in each day. You can’t make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.

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

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.

Most people fail in life because they were not prepared for the opportunities when they appeared.

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain beco

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.

But, if you've decided to go out on a limb and kill one, for goodness' sake, be prepared. We all read, with dismay, the sad story of a good woman wronged in south Mississippi who took that option and made a complete mess of the entire thing. See, first she shot him. Well, she saw right off the bat that that was a mistake because then she had this enormous dead body to deal with. He was every bit as much trouble to her dead as he ever had been alive, and was getting more so all the time. So then,

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "am I ready now? When can I begin and have it done without giving up?" This is preparation.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this going to send me any far? How far can it send me? This is planning.

Take a second look at what you are about to do... A second look prevents a second chance.

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.

When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.

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

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 eve

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

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

One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.

Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.

Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago...

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.

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

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

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.

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.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

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.