Quotes About Preparation

Know thy enemy… even thy dead enemy, for he may easily resuscitate.

Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love when she dies. You got it right. This is part of it all.

Samo oni koji vide šta ?e se dogoditi prežive, mora da je to pravilo.

The essential point here is that there are several stages of creative thought: first, a stage of preparation in which the problem is consciously worked over; then a period of incubation without any conscious concentration upon the problem; and then the illumination which is later justified by logic.

To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late.

Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

I selected a simple but graceful gown with a sage-colored organza overdress and a seed-pearl choker, hoping that I had chosen well, and I swept my hair up with long, pearl-dotted pins from a small ivory box on the vanity.

One day's too far ahead to plan.

Squirrels lose seventy-five percent of the nuts they bury. That's how we get trees." "Does now seem like an appropriate time for a nut metaphor?

Only one who has practiced intensively in preparation for the transition that occurs at death and gained sufficient mental control is capable of exerting an influence on its future state of existence or avoiding rebirth altogether by achieving liberation.

God uses the obstacles in our lives to prepare us for leadership, building courage, character, and confidence.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

A man prepared has half fought the battle.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

So that every man lawfully ordained must bring a bow which hath two strings, a title of present right and another to provide for future possibility or chance.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.