I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
Knowing that his past actions may try to overwhelm him, the devotee must be prepared to combat them. God will give him the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor. It will save him from all the consequences.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
You can't push anyone up the ladder unless he is ready to climb himself.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today
It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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.
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike.
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Be Prepared.
Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
If you're prepared, then you're able to feel confident.
Preparing mentally takes more out of you than the physical aspect of it.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
Trust in your preparation.
You don't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
— Sun Tzu
Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Today's preparation determines tomorrow's achievement.
Look for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.
The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.