Quotes about Preparation

In a 1977 interview with Christianity Today, Billy Graham said, "One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing.

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Plan for the very worst, then pray for the very best. Savor the days when the sun shines, but have your raincoat and boots ready for the storms that will always blow in from the bay.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

He that hath money in his purse cannot want a head for his shoulders.

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

Champions make their own luck.