Preparation Quotes

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Dig the well before you are thirsty.
— Chinese proverb

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up. - A. A. Milne quote.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.
Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

luck

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey quote.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

opportunity luck

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. - Colin Powell quote.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

success hard work failure

Life requires thorough preparation.  Veneer isn't worth anything; we must disabuse our people of the idea that there is a short cut to achievement. - George Washington Carver quote.
Life requires thorough preparation.  Veneer isn't worth anything; we must disabuse our people of the idea that there is a short cut to achievement.

achievement

Achievement is talent plus preparation. - Malcolm Gladwell quote.
Achievement is talent plus preparation.

talent achievement

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 the training of a mere beginner. - Lewis Mumford quote.
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 the training of a mere beginner.

life

Why not seize the pleasure at once?  How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! - Jane Austen quote.
Why not seize the pleasure at once?  How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial. - Winston Churchill quote.
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and this trial.
The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives—with accrued interest—in the mature years.
The spectacular is always preceded by a long period of unspectacular preparation.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur quote.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Remember, if you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. - John Wooden quote.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. - Zig Ziglar quote.
Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.