Quotes for Preparation

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: Spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert H. Schuller

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

I think people really underestimate the power of just wanting to do it, and hard work, and competitive spirit, and preparation.

Joe Burrow

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Lao Tzu

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus 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.

Hermann Hesse

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Stanislav Grof

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well begun is half done.

Aristotle

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!

Alice Englert

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard

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

William Osler

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

Joe Torre

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

I want every player to stay with the mentality and preparation to play together to win.

Unai Emery

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

Arthur Ashe

On 'There Will Be Blood,' I was cast at the last minute. I had 3 and a half to 4 days to get ready for the first day. I just went for it, threw myself in there and gave it everything I had. That was just guts and instinct, not a lot of preparation.

Paul Dano

When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn't learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.

Tommy Morrison

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Joyce Brothers