Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing. — Joe Paterno
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. — Confucius
Proper preparation prevents poor performance. — Charlie Batch
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success. — Jose Bergamin
The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee — Robert K. Greenleaf
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for. — Florence Scovel Shinn
Prepare, prepare, prepare. When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion; you fall to your highest level of preparation. — Chris Voss
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance. — Woody Hayes
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. — Whitney M. Young
If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing. — Gerald Celente
Short Failing To Prepare Quotes
The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. — Alexander Fleming
Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep. — Confucius
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid. — Ralph C. Smedley
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable. — John Wooden
A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow. — Lolo Jones
No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong. — Lewis Howes
You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. — Shia LaBeouf
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale
A winning effort begins with preparation. — Joe Gibbs
The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes — Tom Thibodeau
Failing To Prepare Image Quotes
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Preparing For Failure Quotes
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. — E. O. Wilson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared — Sheldon B. Kopp
Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
Many times people think if God has called you to something, he's promising you success. He might be calling you to fail to prepare you for something else through the failure. — Timothy Keller
People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship. — Gary Chapman
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. — John C. Maxwell
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path. — Anton Chekhov
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership. — Carl Rogers
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill
Fail To Prepare Prepare To Fail Quotes
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem. — Mike Tyson
We are on the threshold of total war. If the Israeli's march into Gaza they will fail to root out the thousands of Hamas fighters there. The arsenal of rockets and missiles in the region is enormous. The rest of the region is prepared to go to war. It's not just Iran. — Douglas Macgregor
Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability. — John Wooden
Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.
So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts
I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there. — Ian Thorpe
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. — John Wooden
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. — Sarah Josepha Hale
If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail. — Mark Spitz
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. — Bernard Iddings Bell
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. — W. Clement Stone
Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final. — Brian Tracy
I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas. — Luke Johnson
Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price. — Larry Winget
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. — Norman Cousins
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original. — Ken Robinson
I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. — Amy Tan
The two things that will defeat a lot of young actors are fear of failure and lack of preparation. With acting, I didn't have a problem with either one - but somehow I didn't equate either one of them to the academic world. — Tom Selleck
Unprepared Quotes
Do the unexpected, attack the unprepared. — Zhuge Liang
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. — Sun Tzu
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. — Sun Tzu
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. — Sun Tzu
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. — Joe Montana
Don't be afraid to fail, encourage your talent, and use your heart. And never be unprepared — Joe Torre
Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. — Yasmin Mogahed
I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared. — Cesare Borgia
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared. — Tony La Russa
But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung
Importance Of Preparation Quotes
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. — Kim Il-sung
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. — Terence Fisher
The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. — Ida Tarbell
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues. — Talaat Pasha
We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity — Jean Vanier
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors. — Fernando Alonso
Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. — Marianne Williamson
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected. — Sun Tzu
You must not procrastinate. Rather, you should make preparations so that even if you did die tonight, you would have no regrets. If you develop an appreciation for the uncertainty and imminence of death, your sense of the importance of using your time wisely will get stronger and stronger. — Dalai Lama
I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before. — James Cameron
When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success. — Howard Twilley
The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail. — Benjamin Franklin
Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences. — Lindsay Lohan
I believe Sarah Palin is a true statesman, whose experience as a failed vice presidential candidate, half-term governor and eight-episode reality star has fully prepared her to take control of our nuclear arsenal. — Stephen Colbert
The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. — Georges St-Pierre
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing. — Stuart Pearce
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary. — J. M. Coetzee
From a position of this sort, if the enemy is unprepared, you may sally forth and defeat him. But if the enemy is prepared for your coming, and you fail to defeat him, then, return being impossible, disaster will ensue. — Sun Tzu
If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail. — Donnie Burns
And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides. — Antonin Artaud
Confidence - Poise and confidence are not possible unless you have prepared correctly. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. Poise and confidence are a natural result of proper preparation. — John Wooden
But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. — David E. Price
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that. — Cliff Richard
We have to get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids and telling us how to do it. But when you look at how we are failing our kids and how the story that they hear about the United States and about the role we've played in the world and our role as the defender of freedom for millions across the world throughout history, you know, they aren't being prepared to stand up and work and fight and defend this nation. — Liz Cheney
You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail. — Benjamin Franklin
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. — John Wooden
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator. — Walter Lippmann
Remain tranquil and prepare to bear still greater trials. All is not lost even though you be troubled oftener or tempted more grievously. You are a man, not God. You are flesh, not an angel. How can you possibly expect to remain always in the same state of virtue when the angels in heaven and the first man in paradise failed to do so? I am He who rescues the afflicted and brings to My divinity those who know their own weakness. — Thomas a Kempis
When winter fails to provide an adequate snow base, my boys bring their sleds in the house and ride them down the stairs. Just the other day, my wife found them with a rope out their second-story bedroom window, preparing to rappel down the side of the house. The recipe for fun is pretty simple raising boys: Add to any activity an element of danger, stir in a little exploration, add a dash of destruction, and you've got yourself a winner. — John Eldredge
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there. — Chris Pine
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. — Alan Watts
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose. — Margaret Mead
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him. — Thucydides
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. — Derek Luke
If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the same. Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is. — Stephen Fry
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. — Sayings
Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world. — Norman Cousins
He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail — Confucius
A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal. — T. R. Fehrenbach
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