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Quotes About Preparation

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
~ Unknown
Mentally I am ready for Christmas. Financially I am not ready for Christmas.
~ Unknown
I'm not looking for Miss Right, right now. I'm just sort of working on becoming Mr. Right.
~ Mario Lopez
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
~ Francis Bacon
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
~ Francis Quarles
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam.
~ George Carlin
...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
~ Unknown
Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.
~ Steve Goodier
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)
~ Charles de Leusse
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…
~ Unknown
You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.
~ Unknown
At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.
~ L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.
~ Ryan Sohmer
I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
~ George Santayana
Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.
~ Frederick The Great
The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.
~ Dan Marino
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
~ Matt Smith
Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.
~ Bill Paxton
Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...
~ Jim Morrison
Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
~ George Santayana