Quotes About Preparation

Remember, don't burn your bridges—there might be crocodiles in the river.

Since a year encompasses a great deal of events, so do our services in the month of Elul. As we prepare for the redemption offered us by Yom Kippur, we focus on what I like to call the three T's: Torah, tefilah, and tzedakah.

Meintjes seems to be concerned not only with the moment of reality, but the preparation before it, and the length of time that lies beyond it… It is the resulting quality of timelessness that is so strangely moving

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Know your enemy — and learn about his favorite sport.

A woman of strength knows to take the time to prepare herself...she goes into seclusion for a season if necessary, to gather the strength of God's power to perform what he requires.

Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. — John 14: 1-3.

Having gone before and prepared the place, you have returned to John and are now taking him with you through the interval of three days into the prepared place that he might share your joy with you, for where I AM there ye may also be.

The man who is not prepared for the conscious plunge into the assumption of the wish fulfilled in the faith that it is the only way to the realization of his dream is not yet ready to live consciously by the law of assumption, although there is no doubt that he does live by the law of assumption unconsciously.

Before you can have, you must do; but before you can do, you must first become.

Por abundantes que fueran los peces en el mar, se necesitaba una red o un sedal y un anzuelo, como mínimo.

Queuing tips for fans: wrap up and bring food!

It is a dolorous fact that a meal, months in the dreaming, weeks in the planning and days in the preparation, is eaten in minutes.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

If they didn't sail soon, the invasion would have to be postponed, perhaps until the following year.

There was very little wind as they set out. The battle was unlikely to happen that day.

contained in sealed orders that were not to be opened until they were at sea.

But how a game plan came to be, what a finished plan looked like, I had no idea. I'd heard that all copies were shredded as soon as the game was over.

You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.

No matter what your chosen profession, be prepared for opportunity and be willing to take it—your destiny may depend on it.