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Quotes About Preparation

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.
~ John Masefield
I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.
~ Katy Butler
Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.
~ Margaret Fuller
We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
~ Mark Nepo
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.
~ Martha Plimpton
Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The hardest bones of beef itself, and mutton, were made as soft as cheese Source: http://www.evs-translations.com/blog-com/pressure-cooker/
~ John Evelyn
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.
~ John Flanagan
Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war," he said. -Baron Arald
~ John Flanagan
Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.
~ John Flanagan
Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple business of planning a war.
~ John Flanagan
You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet. -Ranger's Apprentice
~ John Flanagan
Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life
~ John Flanagan
Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?
~ John Flanagan
She shook her head in admiration. "You've thought of everything," she said. But Will looked up at her and shook his head solemnly. "I doubt it," he said. "No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.
~ John Flanagan
No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.
~ John Flanagan
Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.
~ John Flanagan
Halt and Gilan looked at him, then looked at each other, and said in chorus: "You're an apprentice. You're not ready to think." Then
~ John Flanagan
Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it. Don't give up
~ John Flanagan
What have you packed for? A twelve-month grand tour around the country?
~ John Flanagan
If you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.
~ John Flanagan
Before you shoot your arrow, see it fly a thousand times in your mind.
~ John Flanagan
Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.
~ John Flanagan