Quotes About Preparation

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

... All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.