Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. — Ingmar Bergman
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
You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready. — Flora Rheta Schreiber
Short Unprepared Quotes
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
Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you. — Sun Tzu
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. — Frances Cornford
Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a — George S. Clason
Being unprepared heightens nerves. — James Galway
Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. — John C. Reilly
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Being Unprepared Quotes
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
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
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared. — Lena Headey
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. — Karen Armstrong
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. — Frank Herbert
Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration. — Abraham Lincoln
Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice. — Neal Boortz
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
Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared. — Thomas a Kempis
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it. — George Henry Lewes
How To Be Free Quotes
How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion. — Thomas Hobbes
You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him. — Oscar Robertson
I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent. — Paco Rabanne
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free. — Prince
I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich. — Naval Ravikant
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game. — Harvey Mackay
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. — Franz Kafka
What a wonderful thing it is to be sure of one's faith! How wonderful to be a member of the evangelical church, which preaches the free grace of God through Christ as the hope of sinners! If we were to rely on our works-my God, what would become of us? — George Frideric Handel
The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Unknown Tomorrow Quotes
Your tomorrow has no right to complain about your today, as long as your today gives you a bliss, unknown and incomprehensible to both your yesterday, and tomorrow! — Sonu Nigam
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. — Ludwig von Mises
To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me. — Columbus Short
Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips. — Newell Dwight Hillis
So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate. — Arthur Conan Doyle
And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing. — Ajahn Sumedho
Failing To Prepare 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
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
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
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success. — Jose Bergamin
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
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. — Confucius
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
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale
A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow. — Lolo Jones
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
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
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. — Sarah Josepha Hale
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities. — Napoleon Hill
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
Well Prepared Quotes
A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit. — Haile Selassie
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. — Ronald McNair
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. — Shunryu Suzuki
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well. — Leo Tolstoy
In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans. — Martin Yan
We rise to challenges, we will meet them, we're well prepared for them, we'll get through them and we'll emerge on the other side stronger. — Rishi Sunak
No one besides the Russians has such a heavy presence in the Arctic or is as well prepared to tackle the severity of the conditions. All the other nations do not appear to even be trying to catch up. America is an Arctic nation without an Arctic strategy in a region that is heating up. — Tim Marshall
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. — Horace
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. — Sun Tzu
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit. — Antoine Rivarol
Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all. — Denise Levertov
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. — Sir Henry Taylor
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. — Thomas Shepard
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war. — Moshe Dayan
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. — Henry Taylor
The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bounds should be set
To ingenuity for being so cruel
In bringing change unheralded on the unready. — Robert Frost
Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings. — Ibn Khaldun
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. — Winston Churchill
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
Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault. — Jennifer Worth
Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. — Jeff Cooper
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you. — Osho
When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared. — Guillermo del Toro
I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice. — Elizabeth Kenny
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. — E. M. Forster
I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. — Ed Bradley
I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack. — Sally Quinn
When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come. — Neal Shusterman
Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing. — Muriel Lester
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene... All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. — Daniel Pipes
As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision. — Napoleon Bonaparte
If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience. — Anais Nin
I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself. — Edgar Degas
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise. — J. C. Ryle
There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour. — Winston Churchill
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. — Charles Bradlaugh
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it. — Sun Tzu
He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. — Sun Tzu
I want to go out as unprepared as possible so I can get filled up with what the world has to offer. — Jay Maisel
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner. — Benjamin Whichcote
Those who are unprepared to demonstrate tolerance cannot expect or even demand tolerance for themselves. — Walter Kasper
Only the unprepared are overcome by pressure — Lou Holtz
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