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Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. ...
by John Wooden

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden

Related topics: Motivational

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beating an opponent is not a goal,
but a by-product of success.
- John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
- John Wooden

Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
- John Wooden

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
- John Wooden

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."

Understand the difference between "failing,"
which each of us does often,
and "being a failure,"
which is a state of mind no one should
ever allow themself to fall into.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure
but to be determined not to fail.
- Jimmy Carter

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Know that your true self,
a spiritual being,
is always perfect.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.
In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.
Then the next week they both get out and play again.
Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how
a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed
in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

What we've got here is failure to communicate.
- the movie Cool Hand Luke

The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

Life repeats itself mindlessly -
unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel.
That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death,
the wheel of time.
It moves like a wheel: birth is followed by death,
death is followed by birth;
love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love;
success is followed by failure,
failure is followed by success. Just see!
If you can watch just for a few days,
you will see a pattern emerging, a wheel pattern.
One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy,
and another day you are so dull,
so dead that you start thinking of committing suicide.
And just the other day you were so full of life,
so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God,
that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness,
and today there is great complaint
and you don't see the point why one should go on living...
And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern.
Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it.
- Osho

Please know that I am aware of the hazards.
I want to do it because I want to do it.
Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X

The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy

In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
- Anonymous

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert H. Schuller

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie