Preparation Quotes · Page 7

Adversity is preparation for greatness.

— Andy Andrews

What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

— William Gurney Benham

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

— Jeffrey Archer

Life's a trip, don't forget to tie your shoelaces!

— Anonymous

Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you had duct tape, you were prepared for anything.”

— Annie Barrows

“Preparation works better than optimism”

— John Tollett

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

— Bobby Knight

Don't look at your past relationships as a 'waste of time,' think of it as preparation much like how athletes train for…

— Raghib Clitso

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

— Northrop Frye

If Mike Matheny ever went up to me and said, 'Hey, you are in,' I was never caught off-guard as far as…

— Tommy Pham

Enthusiasm makes your destination of success easy and smooth. It prepares you for the worst with hope for the best.

— Anil Sinha

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have…

— Lewis Mumford

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is…

— John Wooden

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is…

— Nikolai Gogol

I have so far enjoyed my preparation with red ball cricket. The Duke ball swings a lot when you're here in England,…

— Rishabh Pant

Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by…

— Mark Twain

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all…

— Jerry Tarkanian

When you're about to lose the little you do have, even after you fought so hard and gave it your best; how…

— Gee Linder

You have to understand, in this fight, the physical condition and technical preparation are not as important as character and will. The…

— Ruslan Provodnikov

By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the…

— Neal A. Maxwell

I put a lot of my studies into my music and my writing. I want to be able to address real life…

— Trip Lee

“Preparation is essential to achieving your goals in life. You don't want to miss a great opportunity because you were not prepared.…

— Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I was just glad I've got an opponent, to be honest. This is my third opponent for this fight prep. [I'm over…

— Richie Vaculik

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The most difficult thing about acting and directing in a film is acting and directing in a film. Every ounce of your…

— Lake Bell

The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves…

— Heber J. Grant

Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only…

— Dan Coats

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the…

— George Orwell

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

— Alex Rodriguez

Touring takes a lot of work, a lot of preparation.

— Mack Wilberg

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

— Bobby Knight

It's the preparation that's my favourite part of the process.

— Ruth Wilson

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

— Pierre Trudeau

“Spectacular performances are preceded by spectacular preparation”

— Frank Giampaolo

Good luck is a residue of preparation.

— Jack Youngblood

The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.

— Brian Tracy