Quotes about Preparation
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
— Abraham Lincoln
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
— Florence Nightingale
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
— Michael Jordan
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
— Peter Drucker
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.
— Michelangelo
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
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
— Charles Stanley
The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
— Elbert Hubbard
There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.
— Mark Cuban