Prepared Quotes

• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Leadership, Community Living, Preparation

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2145, Delphi Classics

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• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership, Encouraging, Strong Women

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• Be prepared and be honest.

  John Wooden

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.153, B&H Publishing Group

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, Opportunity, African American

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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• You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, World

  "The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts". Play by W. Somerset Maugham, 1921.

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• The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Morning, Business, Work

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• It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

  Sargent Shriver

  Be Prepared, Wells

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Heaven is not a figment of imagination. It is not a feeling or an emotion. It is not the "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." It is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  David Jeremiah

  Beautiful, People, Imagination

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• Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

  Confucius

  Success, Congratulations, Failure

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• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Preparation, Causes, Imperfect

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• If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Civilization, Use

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Taken, Thinking, Emergencies

  Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (2005). “Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• There is always a prepared place for a prepared person.

  Jack Hyles

  Patient, Be Patient, Persons

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• O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what Thou wilt, how much Thou wilt, and when Thou wilt. Deal with me as thou thinkest best. Place me where Thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as Thou wilt. Behold, I am Thy servant, prepared for all things: I desire not to live unto myself, but unto Thee; and oh, that I could do it worthily and perfectly!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving, Justice, Preparation

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• Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Looks, World, Way

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• In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there are distinct similarities between the ways of God in revival and in judgment... Because of His very nature, God cannot and will not permit spiritual decline to continue unchecked. He is ever halting and reversing the trend of the times by means of revival - or judgment. Where His people are not prepared for the one, they shut themselves up to the other.

  Arthur Wallis

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  "In the Day of Thy Power: The Spiritual Principles of Revival".

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• If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Responsibility, Political

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• I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

  George S. Patton

  War, Military, Believe

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• Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, Victory, Half

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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