Quotes About Readiness

When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

He had his knife and gun belt on over his underwear, in case of sudden attack.

Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

Even my shoulder holster and the Browning matched. I had my backup gun in an inner pants holster. I also had two extra clips in my sport bag. I had replaced the knife I'd had to leave in the cave. There was a derringer in my jacket pocket and two extra knives, one down the spine, the other in an ankle holster. Don't laugh. I left the shotgun home. If

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

If prostitutes ... attract us so little, it is not because they are less beautiful than other women, but because they are ready and waiting; because they already offer us precisely what we seek to attain.

The Romantic ideas are, he knows now, a recipe for disaster. His readiness for marriage is based on a quite different set of criteria. He is ready for marriage because—to begin the list—he has given up on perfection.

when the student is ready, the teacher appears

I always keep this handy...for close encounters. (Cpl. Hicks)

I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself, young lady. I have plenty of cartridges for my shotgun and this is a new pair of trousers. I'm ready.

You didn't know what good things were going to happen to you until you were right in the middle of them, so it was best to always be ready.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the

Prayer means nothing else but the readiness to appropriate the Word, and what is more, to let it speak to me in my personal situation, in my particular tasks, decisions, sins, and temptations.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

It's too late to be ready.

I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?