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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
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
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Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
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
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Education is not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey
Don't prepare the path for the child,
prepare the child for the path.
- Anonymous
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
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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden
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
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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]
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
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- 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
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
In preparing for battle I have always found that
plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace
only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
Anything I can not transform
into something marvelous, I let go.
- Anais Nin
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
This life is what you make it.
Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes,
it's a universal truth.
But the good part is,
you get to decide how you're going to mess it up.
Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway.
But just remember, some come, some go.
The ones that stay with you through everything -
they're your true best friends.
Don't let go of them.
Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world.
- Marilyn Monroe
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's foggy and it's gray - let's play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
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