Quotes About Preparation

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

Love is a heavenly quality that is given to prepare men to enjoy the heavenly city more.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage.

I'm already hot, you could say I'm pre-heated. If money talks, mine's telling your's to 'be seated

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.