Top 68 Self Preparation Quotes
#1. When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
Angela Ruggiero
#2. I believe that the definition of luck is when preparation meets with opportunity.
Hilary Swank
#3. Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things; possible to miss life in preparation for living.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#4. Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.
Mark McKinnon
#5. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison
#7. Every goodbye calls for preparation, but most times, life takes us by surprise.
Elisabetta Gnone
#8. Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.
Temeko Richardson
#9. Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message ... .
Thomas Pynchon
#10. It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
Alice Waters
#11. Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry Pratchett
#12. We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.
Henry Ford
#13. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
George MacDonald
#14. I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#15. Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you
Rory Miller
#16. I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.
Tom Brady
#17. Here's what I've learned about eating healthy when you're busy: It's all about preparation. Make your snacks on Sunday, and you will be good to go until Thursday or so.
Summer Sanders
#18. For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn
#19. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.
Margaret Atwood
#20. Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
Osho
#21. The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
Alan Page
#22. [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.
Vince Kehres
#23. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom
#24. Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.
Calvin Coolidge
#25. I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.
Zoe Bell
#26. I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.
William H. Macy
#27. I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.
William Shatner
#28. 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
#30. Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped.
David Millar
#31. Most salespeople are half prepared. They know everything about their company and their product. They know nothing about their prospect.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#32. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers
#33. I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.
Jonny Wilkinson
#34. Those who endure the hardest preparation are called on to finish the greatest tasks. I don't know what you've been called to, but rest assure, you won't have to go through it alone.
D.L. Fowler
#35. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#36. Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius
#37. Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#38. As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
F. Murray Abraham
#39. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
Gail Godwin
#41. I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short ... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.
Chang-rae Lee
#42. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben
#43. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#44. The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.
L. Tom Perry
#45. In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
Sinclair Lewis
#46. When the noise is gone, and
the air is still ...
prepare for survival.
John-Talmage Mathis
#47. My favorite antibiotic for smearing on infected cuts is a prescription preparation called mupirocin (brand name Bactroban), which is available in ointment or cream form. The clear ointment, which is older and off patent, costs $10 a tube. The white cream, which the drug company created when the
Elisabeth Rosenthal
#48. I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
Michelle Kwan
#49. It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.
James D Hornfischer
#50. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?
Robert D. Kintigh
#51. Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a self-correction should take place.
Andras Laszlo
#52. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.
Roopleen
#53. At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.
Thomas Mann
#54. Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#55. Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.
Paulo Freire
#56. Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.
Sam Owen
#57. The real preparation for education is a study of one's self. The training of the teacher ... is something far more than a learning of ideas. It includes the training of character; it is a preparation of the spirit.
Maria Montessori
#58. One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe
#59. No one is born successful, success requires preparation
Sunday Adelaja
#60. The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.
Anil Sinha
#61. Confidence is preparation in action.
Ron Howard
#62. When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment.
Sara Blakely
#63. Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.
Phil Cousineau
#64. -Waiting Time is time of preparation, planning pruning before time of manifestation (time of showing forth)
Ikechukwu Joseph
#65. Close-up violence
it's like a tornado hitting you at 200 mph without warning. It takes all your preparation, fierceness to survive.
David R. Wommack
#66. Success comes from developing a strong inner character
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
#68. The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!
John Calvin
