Top 100 Preparation Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Failure Quotes, Action Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

2. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Business Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

3. “Every battle is won before it is fought.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Winning Quotes

4. “Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Failure Quotes, Winning Quotes

5. “Start with the end in mind.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Future Quotes

6. “I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Athlete Quotes

7. “Chance favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur

Also featured in: Study Quotes, Science Quotes, Smart Quotes, Sports Quotes

8. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying, Ambition Quotes, Sports Quotes, Productivity Quotes

9. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Determination Quotes

10. “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Competition Quotes, Achievement Quotes

11. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Greatness Quotes

12. “It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”

— Bear Bryant

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Football Quotes

13. “When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion – you fall to your highest level of preparation.”

— Chris Voss

14. “Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Productivity Quotes

15. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Future Quotes

16. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Ambition Quotes

17. “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Failure Quotes, Study Quotes

18. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”

— Greg Reid

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Goal Quotes, Effort Quotes

19. “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

— Charles Dickens

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Time Quotes, Productivity Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

20. “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Effort Quotes, Commitment Quotes

21. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Effort Quotes, Smart Quotes

22. “You can only fight the way you practice.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Quotes About Skills

23. “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

— Archilochus

24. “Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes, Productivity Quotes, Habit Quotes

25. “Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Prosperity Quotes

26. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Expectations Quotes

27. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Clever Quotes

28. “No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Risk-Taking Quotes

29. “Confidence comes from being prepared.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Practice Quotes

30. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Different Quotes, Quotes About Kids

31. “Plan for what is difficult when it is easy, do what is great when it is small.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Military Quotes

32. “Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Quotes About Waiting

33. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

34. “A good process produces good results.”

— Nick Saban

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Practice Quotes, Sports Quotes, Football Quotes

35. “It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Winning Quotes, Practice Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes

36. “The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being. Never stop learning.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Learning Quotes, Growth Quotes

37. “Losers react. Winners anticipate.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Winning Quotes, Ambition Quotes

38. “Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously.”

— John Kessel

Also featured in: Practice Quotes

39. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Smart Quotes

40. “To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Practice Quotes, Fitness Quotes

41. “Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.”

— Chanakya

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Quotes About Work, Purpose Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

42. “First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”

— Dale Carnegie

43. “Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”

— Denis Waitley

44. “Train hard, fight easy.”

— Alexander Suvorov

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Victory Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

45. “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

46. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”

— John F. Kennedy

47. “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”

— Sun Tzu

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Military Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

48. “Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Risk-Taking Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes

49. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

— Bobby Unser

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Career Development Quotes

50. “Some people worry. Others prepare.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Worry Quotes