Ralph Waldo Emerson Preparation Quotations

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.