Best Prepared Quotes

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

When you’re afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Be prepared to ride the cycles and trends of life; success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.

If I’ve learned anything, it’s there’s just no drama, which is awesome. I’ve also just learned to read when it’s a good time to talk about something serious and when it’s not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I’m like, ‘Okay, another time is better.’ You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it’s time for me to get married!

If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring.

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty…. Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses’ beard!

Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Chance favors those who are prepared.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

I’ve never been ready to do a single thing I’ve ever done in my life. I haven’t been prepared enough, haven’t studied enough, haven’t known enough. You can never be ready. There’s just so much to know.

… by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Lots of girls will work for five years before Mario Testino will use them, and I was not prepared to slog around doing that.

I believe that if we have lived our lives fully and well, and have accomplished, at least in part, the things we were put here to do, we will be prepared – mentally, physically and spiritually – for our separation from this world.

We’re prepared, and we’ve done everything we can to prepare for this moment in time. That’s what confidence is all about.