If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.
In peace, prepare for war. In war, prepare for peace.
If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.
If we fail to prepare, we prepare to fail.
There is no use for us to shut our eyes to realities. The fact remains that the policy of collective security based on sanctions has been tried out, as indeed we were bound to try it out unless we were prepared to repudiate our obligations and say, without having tried it, that the whole system of the League and the Covenant was a sham and a fraud. That policy has been tried out and it has failed to prevent war, failed to stop war, failed to save the victim of the aggression.
It’s a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.
Failure is not a disgrace. It’s just a pitch that you missed, and you’d better get ready for the next one… My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.
Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.
For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us.