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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
I am trying to own my own opinions
and offer what I know as an option,
just as I would present a tray of appetizers for my guests.
Here are several choices that I have created -
if one looks good you are welcome to take it.
In other words, I am training myself to say,
"May I tell you how it is for me?"
When I ask the question, it means waiting
for the invitation to share.
It also means being prepared for my friend to say,
"No." They don't want to know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
And just dance a little.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
With every rising of the sun
Think of your life as just begun.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
One must know not just how to accept a gift,
but with what grace to share it.
- Maya Angelou
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
Grace isn't just a little prayer
you say before receiving a meal.
It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire,
men cannot live without a spiritual life.
- The Buddha
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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