“we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.”
“What we prepare for is what we shall get.”
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.”
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
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.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him”
No. 365.
Spiritual Exercises (1548)
“If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.”
Fail to prepare; prepare to fail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.
Misattributed
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
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?”
City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection (1994)
