Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail . . . Never mistake activity for achievement . .

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

Qui non est hodie eras minus aptus erit. He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.

The demand to be prepared for all future actions and all situations is the cause of our problems. Every situation is so different; and our attempt to be prepared for all those situations is the one that is responsible for our not being able to deal with situations as they arise.

Turning Points fail when we overprepare the obvious and underprepare the unusual.

When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something. You don’t want to merely be planning. You want to be practicing.

Failure is a prerequisite to learning.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. It is necessary to prepare for an examination, or a dinner-party, or a possible fall in the price of stock: those who attempt human relations must adopt another method, or fail.

It's too late to be ready.