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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have."

Ed Bradley

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. "

Sir William Osler

"It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

Paul "Bear" Bryant

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Benjamin Franklin

"It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"First, I prepare. Then I have faith."

Joe Namath

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln

"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky."

Oprah Winfrey