Quotes about Preparation
It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.
— John Wooden
Seven Things to Do." It read as follows: 1. Be true to yourself. 2. Help others. 3. Make each day your masterpiece. 4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. 5. Make friendship a fine art. 6. Build a shelter against a rainy day. 7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings every day.
— John Wooden
If you prepare properly, you may be outscored but you will never lose.
— John Wooden
I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.
— John Wooden
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books — especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
— John Wooden
The Church is a family expecting guests.
— Andy Stanley
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
— Mark Twain
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 expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
— Confucius
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
— Marianne Williamson
I will not move my army without onions.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
— Ezra Taft Benson