Preparation Quotes - Page 3

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

I never struggled with injury problems because of my preparation - in particular my stretching.

Victory is the child of preparation and determination.

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.

My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?

The cause of war is preparation for war.

Expect the unexpected.

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

To love is good, too: love being difficult. 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. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. Neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

Confidence is preparation in action.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.