Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
Fred Couples
One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.
Merlin Olsen
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Edgar Cayce
People are always getting ready to live but never living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Henry Parry Liddon
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something...hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Roger Staubach
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William Arthur Ward
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him look ridiculous.
J. B. Matthews
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius