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Inspirational Quotes About Preparation

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
 
Seneca (4-65);
Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “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 (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “Failing to prepare is like preparing to fail.”
 
John R. Wooden (born 1910);
Basketball Coach, Author
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Index_card_top “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
 
Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005);
Professor, Writer, Management Consultant
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Index_card_top “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935);
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Index_card_top “Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935);
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Index_card_top “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
 
Colin Powell (born 1937);
65th U.S. Secretary Of State
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Index_card_top “Prepare the umbrella before it rains.”
 
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Index_card_top “For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
 
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926);
Excerpt From Letters To A Young Poet
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Index_card_top “What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do.”
 
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Index_card_top “Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, Wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.”
 
Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995);
Physician, Discovered Eponymous Vaccine For Polio
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Index_card_top “It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will some day give shade to people he may never meet.”
 
D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1994);
Theologian, Writer


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Index_card_top “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
 
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890);
Post Impressionist Painter
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Index_card_top “He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
 
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900);
Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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“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. (1921-1971);
American Civil Rights Leader


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“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ”
 
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945);
32nd U.S. President
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“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 (1913-1983);
American College Football Player And Head Coach


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