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The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

What everfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

It''s not the plan that is important, it''s the planning.

I''m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Some wherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Ittakes time to save time.

By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

In life prepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

Some timeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Talent alonewon''t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ''Are you ready?''

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I''d spend the first hour sharpening theax.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon''t come out while you''re watching.

It''s notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

A good preparation takes longer than the delivery.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Whenyou lose, don''t lose the lesson.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

There are no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Two birds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Unresolved: A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.

No body''sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It''s hardto stay on top.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

The hardest step is over the threshold.

Different fields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it''s out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

We learn little from victory, much from defeat.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become whatthey are capable of being.