Preparing Quotes

• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

  T. D. Jakes

  Blessing

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• To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Mean, Years

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• Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, God

  Interview with Ken Page, www.psychologytoday.com. January 22, 2012.

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• A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

  Lolo Jones

  Success, Sports, Strong Women

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• Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Future

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• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Bigger And Better Things

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• The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Heart, Desire

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• A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Democracy, Trying

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Soul, Preparation

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Jobs, Yoga

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Life, Children, Essentials

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• In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Sleep, Winter

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• The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

  James Stockdale

  Success, Education, Failure

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• I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Inspirational, Success, Important

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• The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

  DeVon Franklin

  God, Truth, Two

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

  Inez Milholland

  Women, Sacrifice, Rights

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• But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

  Shane Claiborne

  Dream, College, Together

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this agony from us. He needs it for souls and for our soul... Alas, it does pain Him to give us sorrows to drink, but He knows this is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself and to become God's ourselves.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Religious, Pain, Mean

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