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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Lao Tzu

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

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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 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

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

Joe Burrow

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

Colin Powell

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Robert H. Schuller

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

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