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Welcome to these Be Prepared Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
Related topics: Motivational Preparation
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause
for which I am prepared to kill.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"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]
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- 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
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
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
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
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
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar
Know that all people are your brothers and sisters.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Truth is not defined by
how many people believe something.
Ask. Question. Think.
Decide - for yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they
have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
Many people allow their need
for other people's approval to control their lives.
They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
- Rick Warren
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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