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May you find great value in these Preparing quotes and sayings.
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted,
but beholds it as something
unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
- Albert Schweitzer
People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
Take responsibility for your whole life -
regardless of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Don't take anything personally.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Don't let anyone else take the measure
of your worth and capabilities.
Always stand proud in who you are.
- Margaret Spellings
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Set Goals - Take Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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