preparation

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Potential does not always ensure success. . . . The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win." I think this is wrong. . . . We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare." Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life.

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.

My sons served excellent missions, and . . . returned to participate in college athletics. . . . In their letters home, and even now that they have been back for some time, they frequently mention that the experiences in the mission field were the choicest and most gratifying of their lives. You young [men], begin to prepare yourselves now for this marvelous experience.