Fail to prepare, prepare to fail

• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Roy Keane
• Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. John Wooden
• If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Steve Prefontaine
• If you’re fail to prepare, you’re prepared to fail. Mark Spitz
• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
• Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful. William Arthur Ward
• Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful. William Arthur Ward
• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius
• When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true. Paula Abdul
• We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. Veronica Roth
• 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
• 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

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Preparation brings success

• Part of success is preparation on purpose. Jim Rohn
• Preparation clears a pathway for success. Ron Kaufman
• Achievement is talent plus preparation. Malcolm Gladwell
• I don’t expect success. I prepare for it. Ryan Reynolds
• The definition of success is total preparation. George Allen
• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. Zig Ziglar
• Success is when persistence meets preparation. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity. Henry Hartman
• Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford
• More important than the will to win is the will to prepare. Charlie Munger
• Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing. Arthur Currie
• Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell
• Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success. Paul Brown
• Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity. Branch Rickey
• Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert Schuller
• Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment. Herb Brooks
• I don’t know secret to success, but I’m pretty sure the closest thing is preparation. Michelle Kwan
• I don’t know the secret to success, but I’m pretty sure the closest thing is preparation. Michelle Kwan
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
• When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. Zig Ziglar
• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
• Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings. Thomas S. Monson
• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation — veneer isn’t worth anything. George Washington Carver
• 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
• 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
• No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. Horace
• Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding. George S. Clason
• Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don’t be envious, be honest.. Bernard Baruch
• So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you’re prepared it’s going to continue to come your way. Anthony Mackie
• 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 you ready?” Johnny Carson
• You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge. Sun Tzu
• It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell. Mark Twain