These Preparation quotes will inspire you. Preparation and desire are going to get you that title nothing else. Now the desire is hugely important, yes, but if you haven’t prepared to win then you better get prepared to fail.
If you throw two guys into the ring to fight to the death who wins yes the guy with the biggest desire to win but what if they both have the desire the guy who has prepared the best for the battle the guy who trained harder who sacrificed more who wanted more that’s the guy that wins.
He will win every time because he has more in his locker he can go one more round he can take one more hit he can get up one more time now don’t get me wrong he still needs to have the heart to follow, through to make things happen when there seems no chance for anything to happen. Save the collection of top preparation quotes to get going in life.
Top Preparation Quotes
- “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” ~ Colin Powell
- “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.” ~ Confucius
- “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Plans are useless, but planning is essential.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.” ~ Joel Osteen
- “The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” ~ Joe Paterno
- “Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Behind every brilliant performance, there were countless hours of practice and preparation.” ~ Eric Butterworth
- “Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?'” ~ Johnny Carson
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“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “I run on the road long before I dance under the lights.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.” ~ Thomas S. Monson, Preparation quotes about preparing for the future
- “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier
- “Don’t waste 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 and ages that will follow it.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” ~ Arthur Ashe
- “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” ~ Zig Ziglar, Preparation quotes about planning
- “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “The truth is you and I are in control of only two things – how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.” ~ DeVon Franklin
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“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him” ~ Beth Moore
- “First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.” ~ George Washington Carver
- “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.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.” ~ Roger Maris, Preparation quotes on hard work
- “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ~ John Dewey
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“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.” ~ Robert H. Schuller
- “For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.” ~ Emmitt Smith, Preparation quotes on training
- “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.” ~ Mike Murdock
- “Prepare while others are daydreaming.” ~ William Arthur Ward
- “Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.” ~ Orison Swett Marden , Preparation quotes about preparedness
- “Proper preparation prevents poor performance.” ~ Charlie Batch
- “There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.” ~ Antonin Artaud
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“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.” ~ Shunryu Suzuki
- “For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear – when you are the hammer, strike.” ~ Edwin Markham
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.” ~ Brian Tracy
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“Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.” ~ Jack Canfield
- “Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.” ~ John Dewey
- “The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.” ~ George MacDonald
- “If either person isn’t 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren’t ready to enter into it. That’s part of the reason the divorce rate is so high. People are entering into the commitment they’re making without having the strength of character, fortitude, and resolve to keep the promises they’re making to each other and also to God. God cares VERY MUCH that we keep our marital promises -He enters into the marriage with you whenever you marry so your promises aren’t only to each other but also to Him.” ~ Cindy Wright
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“Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should “naturally” sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn’t realistic.” ~ Cindy Wright
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“Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” ~ Bobby Unser
- “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.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” ~ Gail Godwin
- “The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.” ~ Eric Butterworth
- “Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.” ~ Yves Klein
- “I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?” ~ Omar Epps
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“Good luck is a residue of preparation.” ~ Jack Youngblood
- “The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.” ~ E. J. Hughes
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“Expect the unexpected.” ~ Bear Bryant
- “It’s sad but true that if you focus your attention on housework and meal preparation and diapers, raising children does start to look like drudgery pretty quickly. On the other hand, if you see yourself as nothing less than your child’s nurturer, role model, teacher, spiritual guide, and mentor, your days take on a very different cast.” ~ Joyce Maynard
- “Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!” ~ Jane Austen
- “Be prepared! All of your gear should be in a state of readiness so you can concentrate on painting. Choose your brushes as you would choose weapons before battle.” ~ Richard Schmid
