I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Benjamin Disraeli

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
Abigail Van Buren

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.
Sheldon Adelson

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.
George Lincoln Rockwell

To be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.
Miguel de Cervantes

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Edgar Cayce

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
Samuel Butler

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Annie Besant

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
Christian Bale

Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.
Vladimir Putin

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
Van Morrison

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
Bruce Dickinson

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden