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Quotes about Preparation

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
— Benjamin Harrison
A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
— Rita Ora
The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!
— Thomas Watson
If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.
— Mike Posner
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment
— Oprah Winfrey
A beard well lathered is half shaven.
— Oprah Winfrey
You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?
— Confucius
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.
— Cormac McCarthy
William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
— DH Lawrence
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
— Dale Carnegie
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
— Dale Carnegie
All things are ready if the mind be so.
— Dale Carnegie