Quotes About Readiness

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

And it's like that Zen saying: 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

softening the hard ground for the coming

Ara faig d'angle estèril de la llum. Si em criden, tanmateix, diré que encara no estic a punt, que tinc certes foteses per endegar, mig de nit, mig de dia, que de moment, sisplau, amb mi no hi comptin, que encara em queda molt passat per viure.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Everything that hasn't happened is nonsense. But when it does happen, it is better to be prepared. I like to discount the future until I see the sun rise on a new day.

Someone's might be ready, Someone's may not, Mine is not ready, But I have no issue.

Your ability is ready to be put in practice.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.

if preparation prevents war, there would have been no war in Europe. They spent twenty years preparing for it."29

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

men all over the Victory were running to their posts, some to other tasks but the vast majority to man the ship's 104 guns

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

I understood that I was a fairly highly strung person, that my default state was one of readiness. I had rarely felt completely comfortable in my skin or at ease with my surroundings. I was always in a state of alert, on the lookout for any kind of menace or danger, and events and people had often proved me right because, I suppose, my judgement simply wasn't that good. I suspect much of this came from my upbringing, which had rarely felt relaxed, or even happy.

You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.

Psychologist Dr. Terry Orlick has been studying excellence in sports, business, and life for decades. He is world renowned for his motivational and mental approach to peak performance. Orlick has determined that there are seven components of excellence: commitment, focus, confidence/trust/belief, positive imagination, mental readiness, controlling distractions, and constant learning.

Your body and your mind need to be clear, uncluttered, for what lies ahead.

She could smell herself: rich, sleek, ready.

To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves...

Never fight tomorrow's fight today,

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.