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Quotes About Preparation

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
~ Horace
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
~ Horace
Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.
~ Sappho
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.
~ Big Joe Turner
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.
~ Gerry Cooney
Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .
~ Clifford D. Simak
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
~ Mario Puzo
A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.
~ Michele Bachmann
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
~ Napoleon Hill
Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
~ Ahmed Yassin
Whatever a man does he must do first in his mind.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
~ Ben Jonson
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
~ Maimonides
Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]
~ Ovid
Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
~ Sun Tzu
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
~ Confucius
The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
~ Epicharmus of Kos
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
~ Evelyn Waugh
We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
~ Francis Parkman
Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
~ Cat Stevens
Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.
~ Diogenes Laertius