Japanese Proverb Quotes

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

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

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

It will not always be summer; build barns.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

One who does not look ahead remains behind.

You just need a good plan and then a back-up plan!

The time to prepare isn't after you have been given the opportunity. It's long before that opportunity arises. Once the opportunity arrives, it's too late to prepare.

It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

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

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

I stay ready so I don't have to get ready.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Precaution is better than cure.

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.