Top 93 Life Preparing Quotes
#1. If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
Mario Puzo
#3. Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.
Peter James West
#4. She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse.
Anthony Marra
#5. You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#6. The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V.S. Pritchett
#7. The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
Billy Graham
#8. There are moments you wait for. And then there are moments you wait for. Moments you spend every other moment preparing for. Points of your life that click and turn. Push you in a completely new direction.
Ryan Graudin
#9. I believe nature's a lot smarter than anyone thinks. During the course of a man's life he develops a lot of pleasures and people he cares about. Then nature takes them away one by one. It's her way of preparing you for death.
Cus D'Amato
#10. If our purpose of life is live in peace and happiness, then why are we always preparing for war?
Debasish Mridha
#12. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'
Michelle Obama
#13. Our whole life we are preparing for a journey to paradise, but we are walking through the paradise if we can realize it, see the beauty and see the miracles and enjoy it.
Debasish Mridha
#14. The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.
Maria Montessori
#15. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
Jeff Goins
#16. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.
Lorene Cary
#17. Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to the center of a well-lived life.
Michael Pollan
#18. What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
Alison Gopnik
#19. Life never follows your plan.
The truth was you could spend countless hours planning and preparing, and the only thing you could count on once you'd got your plan set was that it would be the one way things won't happen.
Penelope Douglas
#20. As we step into our life's work, we discover that we have been preparing for this our whole lives, even though in that very moment we feel insufficient.
Jeff Goins
#21. If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.
Robert L. Wise
#22. Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
#23. It felt as if everything that had happened so far in my life had been leading me to this point, preparing me for this task, and that I was uniquely equipped to pursue this quest. It was a perfect collision of personality, past experience, purpose, and timing.
Roz Savage
#24. Life is what happens to us when we are preparing for the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Looking at the original lyrics [of "A Song For You" ] as I was preparing it, I thought, "Wow! I feel like it was written for me." That's what a great song does. You don't have to do a lot of homework. You can just say the words and it springs to life.
Cheyenne Jackson
#26. Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
Peter Landesman
#27. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.
John O'Donohue
#28. Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
Karen Thompson Walker
#29. When she was teaching us to garden, cook, read, clean, sew, she said she was preparing us for life. Well, life has changed a lot in the years since she was my age, but somehow the lessons haven't really changed. They've evolved. And I want to be part of that.
Robyn Carr
#30. Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
#31. The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark of divinity that precedes a deathless eternity.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#32. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
Nikki Sixx
#33. Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working!
Guy Fieri
#34. Why did parenting change from preparing our kids for life to protecting them from life, which means they're not prepared to live life on their own?
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#35. I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.
Kim Fields
#37. When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
Jenna McCarthy
#38. Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.
Don Williams
#39. We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
Ingmar Bergman
#40. Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
William Faulkner
#41. But if life is what can be called the time you spend preparing for the event, and then dealing with how the event went, then what would you call the event itself? Is that not life? Is that not the best part?
Meg Howrey
#42. Life is a journey without plan or destination.
On the way we are preparing to plan and planning to return.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The Angel of Death took the woman's frail hand. "Don't be afraid." she said. "Life is your past. Death, on the other hand, is your soul preparing for a new beginning. A brand new adventure, if you like." An excerpt from Paradox - Equilibrium. Book 4 in the Paradox series (release date 2013)
Patti Roberts
#44. They throw their stones at you not expecting that you would catch them with a smile. But a wise soul knows that what life throws at you today, is only preparing you for a stronger tomorrow. After all, you can't build a castle without first laying down its foundations...
Seja Majeed
#45. Rather than assuming that education is primarily about preparing for jobs and careers, what would it mean to think of education as a process of guiding kids' participation in public life more generally, a public life that includes social, recreational, and civic engagement.
Mizuko Ito
#46. Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#47. We are all preparing for things to come. That is the purpose of mortal life ... We are all children of a Heavenly Father who has sent us to earth with the invitation to prepare for eternal life. Every choice, every experience, every repentance and reformation prepares us for what is to come.
Dallin H. Oaks
#48. Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.
Dominic Chianese
#49. Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.
Lorrie Moore
#50. We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
Billy Graham
#51. An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
Scott Stossel
#52. It feels like he's marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life.
Katy Evans
#53. Preparing a child for the world of tomorrow is one of the most important roles a parent plays in a child's life.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#55. Even most churches don't really know what to do with their singles. They teach classes on "preparing for marriage," "waiting for marriage," and "praying for marriage," but what about just honoring exactly who you are in this moment instead of always prepping for the next phase of life?
Mandy Hale
#56. A successful local food economy implies not only a new kind of food producer, but a new kind of eater as well, one who regards finding, preparing, and preserving food as one of the pleasures of life rather than a chore.
Michael Pollan
#57. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#58. Stuckley drew back his sword with evident satisfaction. "She really is your Achilles' heel, isn't she Furey?"
"No." Lorcan said, preparing his own attack. "Not my Achilles' heel.The love of my life. And I'll do whatever it takes to protect her.
Justin Somper
#59. If you aren't preparing for life like a war, you'll end up living like a prisoner of war.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#60. Epictetus being asked how a man should give pain to his enemy answered, By preparing himself to live the best life that he can.
Epictetus
#61. Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.
Eve M. Harrell
#62. They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy.
She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
Kiana Davenport
#63. I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
Michael Zaslow
#64. The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.
Herbert Hoover
#65. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#66. To live with fake positive thoughts is suicide, but living with negative all your life is just preparing the trigger for to get shoot!
Deyth Banger
#67. God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character.
Gordon Fee
#68. Instead of preparing men for life French schools solely prepare them to occupy public functions, in which success can be attained without any necessity for
self-direction or the exhibition of the least glimmer of personal initiative.
Gustave Le Bon
#70. Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#71. I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
Tom Cruise
#72. Subconsciously, I have started to say goodbye to the people and objects in my life as if preparing to die, even though I have no real plan. I just feel strongly, in my gut, that I'm not meant to stay here.
Deborah Feldman
#73. I see you resting and learning. I see you getting stronger. I see you preparing for greater things so you can take your life and business to a higher level. Always remember that our biggest battle comes before our greatest victory.
Jon Gordon
#74. Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.
Candy Chang
#75. Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
J.G. Holland
#77. Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.
Swami Vivekananda
#79. Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life's way of preparing you for success.
Bernie Mac
#80. Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are preparing for a full life ahead ... now that's what you call risk!
Dave Hampton
#81. Kids who are in school just visit life sometimes, and then they have to stop to do homework or go to sleep early or get to school on time. They're constantly reminded they are preparing 'for real life,' while being isolated from it.
Sandra Dodd
#82. Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live." What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#83. I feel like every present moment is the moment I was waiting and preparing for my whole life.
Debasish Mridha
#84. I looked at my life and saw quite clearly that I was not surviving it in the turquoise house. I was letting my sails crust up with salt. I had to stop playing johnny johnny and concentrate on preparing for rain, preparing for rescue.
Janet Fitch
#86. I was not concerned about the dancing - I was confident that I could draw on my experience from preparing for martial arts competitions, with the supplementary advantage of an optimum intake of alcohol, which for martial arts is not permitted.
Graeme Simsion
#87. Life is a journey. Our whole life we are preparing for the journey, but never take the road.
Debasish Mridha
#88. We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions is preparing the humanity of tomorrow; it is a tiny contribution to the construction of the huge and glorious final humanity
Jean Vanier
#89. Where I am today, it is my current destination, I was preparing for this my whole life. Today's decision and persistent action will take me my future destination.
Debasish Mridha
#90. We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and that means preparing them for the tough job market.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#91. In life we are always preparing to live but never living.
Debasish Mridha
#92. A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#93. I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
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