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Quotes About Preparation

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
~ Haruki Murakami
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
~ Hillary Clinton
There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.
~ James Frey
we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.
~ Joel Osteen
Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.
~ Edith Head
If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?
~ Ellen Galinsky
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
~ Epictetus
I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
~ Esther Williams
The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.
~ Frank N. Newman
The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.
~ Alberto Juantorena
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
~ Billy Graham
What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
~ Lois Lowry
I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
~ Lorene Cary
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
~ Martial
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
~ Nancy Reagan
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life.
~ Nicholas Sparks
When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.
~ Pat McBride
I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
~ Patti LuPone
Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.
~ Robert Breault
My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.
~ Willie Aames
I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.
~ Ryan Lochte
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
~ Simone Weil
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
~ Isaac Asimov