“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
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“What we prepare for is what we shall get.”
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American academic
Essays of William Graham Sumner, I: "War", 1903, http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-war-and-other-essays?q=prepare#Sumner_0255_13.
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
As quoted in Trigger Events – How To Find Your Next Customer (2007) by Alen Majer, p. 22
“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”
Tom Stoppard book Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”
Beth Moore (1957) American evangelist
Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556) Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
“If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Fail to prepare; prepare to fail. <br class="br">By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. <br class="br">Attributed to Franklin in Julita Agustin-Israel, Lakas ng Loob, 1996, p. 53 https://books.google.com/books?id=2Z59AAAAMAAJ&q=prepare; there is no evidence that he coined any forms of this quote. <br class="br">Misattributed
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)
“Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection (1994)