Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

Better reap two days too soon than one day too late

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

Don't agonise, organise.

To me, it's simple: if you've got the time, use it to get ready. What else could you possibly have to do that's more important? Yes, maybe you'll learn how to do a few things you'll never wind up actually needing to do, but that's a much better problem to have than needing to do something and having no clue where to start.

When you're thirsty, it's too late to think about digging a well.

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

Football is simple. You are in time or too late. When you are too late, you should start sooner.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'