Quotes about Preparation

When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.

I got a lot of heart. I am going to give it my all every day. I have no excuses. I come prepared every day. I put it in the hard work.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

The Day Dawns: Rising with Praise, Petition, and Planning.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

When we give up the smaller, everyday things we are training for times when greater sacrifice is required.

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.