Preparation
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- The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
- The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
- The people who did the hard, unpopular, disciplined things during the good times are the ones set up to thrive during the bad times.
- The relevant question is not simply what shall we do tomorrow, but rather what shall we do today in order to get ready for tomorrow.
- The secret of success in life, is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
- The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose.
- The wise man guards against future evils as if they were present.
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
- There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
- Think like an optimist. Prepare like a pessimist.
- To cure is the voice of the past; to prevent, the divine whisper of to-day.
- To last an eternity requires an eternity of preparation. Only excellence counts; only achievement endures.
- Trust in God, but keep your powder dry.
- Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to a man exactly what his antecedents have enabled him to make of it.
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
- We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.
- We have all heard the saying "the man with a plan is king." I believe a man without a plan is just a pawn to circumstance and embarking on a losing strategy.
- We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
- We never know for what God is preparing us in His schools, for what work on earth, for what work in the hereafter. Our business is to do our work well in the present place, whatever that may be.
- What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
- When a situation is within your control, take action. When a situation is outside your control, make preparations.
- When the ancients said that a work begun was half done, they meant that we ought to take the utmost pains in every undertaking to make a good beginning.
- When you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail.
- While young, hoard up a great stock of knowledge; though in that season of dissipation you may not have occasion to spend much of it, yet a time will come when you will need it to maintain you.
- Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
- You better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- You don’t win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches.
- You must sow before you can reap: you must become too big for your present position before you are capable of occupying a larger one.