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Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.

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.

A violinist fiddled. With strings resined for winter. Summer's light splintered.

Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

Be grateful for the adversities you face in life, because each experience is uniquely designed - Just For You. To enliğhten your mind and soul. No matter how painful, it is worth every bit the lesson, the reward it holds in store

Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams. Think about the possibility of what you plan to do and approach it with an optimistic action. Stay positively.

Be prepared before you set off to work on your dreams. Prior preparation is success divided by half. The more prepared you are, the easier your success. Set off.

Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.

Better to wait actively than passively.

Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.

Clearly outline your plans, acknowledge God and he will direct them for you. If you can have it planned, you can achieve it; if you have it planned big, you will achieve it big. Make your choice!

Confidence sometimes requires purposeful preparation and practice.

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not mean that you keep delaying the time for beginning. You must begin by all means! Go, get prepared!

Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.

Don’t depend on the thoughts; “I need more time”. There are only 24 hours in each day. You can’t make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.

Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen.It is the same with dreams.

Everything you are called to do has already been prepared for you by God, He just needs your obedience

Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.

Good preparation is better then hope for a miracle.

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take no risks and be alert to danger. That is all.

God prepared us for the task ahead of time.

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "am I ready now? When can I begin and have it done without giving up?" This is preparation.

He who fails to understand that one should prepare for every single blessing will reap the problems connected with lack of preparation before the blessing.

How strongly do you believe in what you want to do? How prepared are you live and die for it? You are not likely to succeed when you always doubt your capacity to reach higher heights in your pursuits.

I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

If you are an aspiring leader and you have not yet gone through any trouble, prepare for one. It is by going through the hard times that you become harder against the storms of life.

If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.

If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this going to send me any far? How far can it send me? This is planning.

If you’re not far enough along to be able to decide, you’re not ready.

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

I'm not going to be surprised again, Thom," Mat said, "Burn me, but I'm not going to let it happen. I'm tired of walking into traps unprepared. I plan to take command of my own destiny, stop running from problem to problem. It's time to be in charge." "And you do that with..." Juilin said. "Elaborate aliases with backstories," Mat said, handing Thom and Noal their sheets. "Bloody right I do.

If you’ve been prepping for a while, you’ve probably heard of survivalist’s "Rule of Three". You can survive: Three minutes without air. Three days without water. Three weeks without food. If disaster has hit and you’re still breathing, then your next concern has got to be water.

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth.

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.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

I scrambled backward on the bed, moving toward the headboard. "Where you going, sweet Caroline?" he asked, crawling across the bed to get to me. "I wanted to hold on for this," I quipped, arching an eyebrow and my back as I grabbed on to the iron headboard. "That's my girl.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our final day (attributed to Matthew Henry)

It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.