(2590 quotes found)
“Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.”
Jane Austen
“Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity”
Henry Hartman
“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.”
Robert H. Schuller
“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
David Livingstone
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is "to be prepared”
Dan Quayle
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
Winston Churchill
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
Oprah Winfrey
“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.
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.”
Dan Castellaneta