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Quotes About Preparation

Make hay while the sun shines.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Take therefore no thought of the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
~ Bible
The future is the past in preparation.
~ Pierre Dae
What's past is prologue.
~ William Shakespeare
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.
~ William Cowper
As we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.
~ Blaise Pascal
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
~ Saint Isidore of Seville
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
~ William Feather
Today, well lived, will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.
~ Anonymous
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
~ Leo Durocher
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day, a happy day.
~ Helen Boehm
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
~ William Hazlitt
June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.
~ Siberian saying
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
~ Thomas Fuller
Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
~ Bible
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
~ Samuel Johnson
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
~ American Proverb
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!
~ Alice Caldwell Rice
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Be, therefore, not anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.
~ Bible
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck