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Preparation is about getting something ready for the future.

• Prepare:  To make or get something or someone ready for something that will happen in the future.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Prepare: The action or process of making something ready for use or service or of getting ready for some occasion, test, or duty.  Merriam Webster
• Prepare:  To put in proper condition or readiness.  Dictionary.com
• The future,  Planning,  Practice,  Embrace the gift of today

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Preparation builds confidence

• To build confidence, build competence. Nothing creates and undergirds a confident disposition like knowing you’re prepared for the challenge. Tom Morris
• Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.  Richard Kline
• One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe
• Mental techniques can enhance, but can never replace, the hard work of preparation. Great confidence is rooted in great preparation. Only those who prepare for greatness can reasonably expect it. Tom Morris
• If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident. Robert Ringer
• Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation. Jack Nicklaus
• What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do. Joe Namath
• Self-confidence

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Preparation creates luck

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
• Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.  Roy D. Chapin Jr.
• The harder I work, the luckier I get. Samuel Goldwyn
• Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. Thomas Jefferson
• Don’t be surprised to discover that luck favors those who are prepared. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet. Jesse Jackson
• I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky. Oprah Winfrey
• Good luck is a residue of preparation. Jack Youngblood
• The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. Tony Robbins
• Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson
• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability…. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. Thomas A. Edison
• Luck is opportunity met by preparation – and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice. Neal Boortz
• I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy. Jack Canfield
• Luck, that’s when preparation and opportunity meet. Pierre Trudeau
• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
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Preparation brings success and achievement

• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. Confucius
• Before anything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford
• 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
• Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. Robert Schuller
• Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. Alexander Graham Bell
• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
• Achievement is talent plus preparation. Malcolm Gladwell
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
• Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity. Henry Hartman
• There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation — veneer isn’t worth anything. George Washington Carver
• More important than the will to win is the will to prepare. Charlie Munger
• I don’t know the secret to success, but I’m pretty sure the closest thing is preparation. Michelle Kwan
• Success is when persistence meets preparation. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can succeed in our sacred callings. Thomas S. Monson
• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
• 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
• Success,  Achievement

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Preparation brings mastery

• It’s true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance. Zig Ziglar
• The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, “Ah Maestro, you are a genius!” Paderewski tartly replied, “Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!” What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. Eric Butterworth
• Mastery

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Preparation brings victory

• The will to win is not as important as the will to prepare to win. Bobby Knight
• Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win. Bobby Knight
• Victory is the child of preparation and determination. Sean Hampton
• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. Alan Armstrong
• It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters. Paul “Bear” Bryant
• Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result. Joe Torre
• If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win. Bear Bryant
• Tomorrow’s battle is won during today’s practice. Japanese Proverb
• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar
• Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together. Tom Coughlin
• Winning,  Victory

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Preparation brings discovery and inspiration

• He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. John Steinbeck
• Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless. Tim Cook
• In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative….. A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves into that environment, they begin their creative day. Twyla Tharp
• Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Discovery,  Inspiration

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Lack of preparation comes at a price

• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin
• Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organisation, preparation and action. David Allen
• Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance. Stephen Keague
• We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. Veronica Roth
• Failing to prepare is preparing to fail. John Wooden
• Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful. William Arthur Ward

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Prepare for the future

• It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Jacki Joyner-Kersee
• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
• Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look. James Burke
• If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready. Will Smith
• As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design. Margaret Sanger
• Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present. Thomas S. Monson
• Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become. Joel Osteen
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Prepare before you need to perform

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln
• I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. Muhammad
• Before beginning, prepare carefully. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• If you believe you can accomplish everything by “cramming” at the eleventh hour, by all means, don’t lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining. Max Brooks

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Prepare yourself for when opportunity knocks

• I will prepare and someday my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
• 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, Jr.
• You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. Roger Maris
• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late. Rita Coolidge
• It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready. Theodore Roosevelt
• Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. Jackson Brown Jr.
• If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can… you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Eleanor Roosevelt
• One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. Henry Moore
• 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
• All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen. Sidney Lumet
• Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. George S. Clason
• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him. Beth Moore
• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
• There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Oprah Winfrey
• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
• 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
• The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident. Sidney Lumet
• When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare. John Wooden
• Opportunity,  Proactiveness

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Prepare for success

• If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for. Florence Scovel Shinn
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Expect the best but prepare for the worst

• Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Chris Bradford
• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. Denis Waitley
• Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar
• There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen. Kay Redfield Jamison
• Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I’m a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst-case scenario. I call it ‘the eaten by wolves factor.’ If I do something, what’s the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don’t worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. Randy Pausch
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Prepare for adversity and crisis and you may even avoid it

• Prepare the umbrella before it rains. Malay Proverb
• Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy. Lao Tzu
• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Benjamin Franklin
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. John F. Kennedy
• In moments of crisis, the initiative passes to those who are best prepared. Charlie Morton
• It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark. Howard Ruff
• Adversity,  Challenge

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Prepare and then adapt

• Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does. Lauren Fleshman
• Over prepare, then go with the flow. Regina Brett
• Adaptability,  Evolution

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Prepare for old age

• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. Dwight L. Moody
• Getting older gracefully

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Prepare for your last day

• Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. Bill Graham
• Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter. William Shakespeare
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Prepare for tomorrow by doing today’s work well

• The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well. Sir William Osler
• Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. Harriet Martineau
• Here’s the advice Sir William Osler gave the students at Yale: “Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well. William Osler
• Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today. Bruce Lee
• The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present. George H. Brimhall

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Prepare by planning and organising

• A goal without a plan is just a wish. Larry Elder
• Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. Benjamin Franklin
• If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. Yogi Berra
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. Mark Cane
• Planning is bringing the future into the present. Mike Vance
• Plans are useless, but planning is essential. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. Napoleon Hill
• Planning,  Being organised

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Prepare through visioning and visualisation

• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
• Visualization can be very helpful, if you imagine the steps you will take in order to succeed. Mentally simulating the process of achieving the goal, rather than the hoped- for outcome, not only results in a more optimistic outlook, but in greater planning and preparation. Picture yourself doing what it takes to succeed, and you will soon find yourself believing that you can. Heidi Grant Halvorson
• 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
• Vision,  Visualisation

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Prepare by learning and training

• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
• Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. John Dewey
• To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. James P. Carse
• A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. Orison Swett Marden
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Prepare through training and practice

• Behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation. Eric Butterworth
• For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. Emmitt Smith
• Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw. Yves Klein
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It is possible to over-prepare

• Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine. William Feather

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Stop preparing to live and start living fully now

• I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Tagore
• Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! Jane Austen
• Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. Boris Pasternak
• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. Elbert Hubbard
• We are always getting ready to live but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. B. Yeats
• Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. Shunryu Suzuki
• Live in the present,  Embrace the gift of today,  Preoccupation with the future

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• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better.  Calvin Trillin
• Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.  Robert Louis Stevenson
• Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Lewis Mumford
• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Gail Godwin
• If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of take-off is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies. John Cleese

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