Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I believe you’ve got to do your due diligence.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

When I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

The future is purchased by the present.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Nobody is my boss.

My business is to prevent the future.

I don’t want followers.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

From the boys‘ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Our motto at Blue Origin is ‚Gradatim Ferociter‘: ‚Step by Step, Ferociously.‘

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.