Preparation Quotes

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure. (Colin Powell)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. View quote
William Osler
In all things success depends on previous preparation, and without such previous preparation there is sure to be failure. View quote
Confucius
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. View quote
John Dewey
Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during. View quote
Albert Pujols
You had 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. View quote
Harriet Martineau
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 training. View quote
Lewis Mumford
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. View quote
Henri Matisse
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. (Barack Obama)
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. View quote
Arthur Henderson
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. View quote
Barbara Jordan
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. View quote
Gail Godwin
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. View quote
Seneca
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. View quote
Hermann Hesse
A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Achievement is talent plus preparation. (Malcolm Gladwell)
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. View quote
Jane Austen
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. View quote
William Butler Yeats
And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity. View quote
Randy Pausch