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Quotes About Readiness

Preparation position you for prosperity.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Get Ready, Get Ready!
~ Bishop T.D.Jakes
I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
~ Kerry Packer
And before they ate the last supper of life-ending mushrooms, they would pound the drums and sound the hours. They would ready the souls of their bodies, the soul of the eyes, the soul of the mouths, all of them, one by one. They would know to be ready, to not dillydally and get left behind. Soon the soldiers would arrive. They would stab them with their bayonets, shoot them with their rifles, but they would already be gone, their bodies empty like the hollow husks of the emeralds beetles.
~ Amy Tan
It was possible that when the climbers were ready, the mountain wouldn't be
~ Anatoli Boukreev
Listen to Nagging Doubts—Start When You're Ready
~ Andrew Hunt
we seek here to maintain that unity in humility and love. Those who love most are the most ready for His coming. Love to each other is the life and beauty of His bride, the church.
~ Andrew Murray
He knows when we are spiritually ready to receive the blessing to our profit and His glory.
~ Andrew Murray
Don't you see? The BITs aren't working out, either. They're just not ready, which isn't fair to us or our clients. And we're starting to resent the BITs, which isn't fair to them. You have to look at the whole picture. Firing them is the best decision for everybody. Just like your moving to California was the best decision. I mean, sure Jeff will be disappointed when you tell him.
~ Ann M. Martin
APERT  (APE'RT)   adj.[apertus, Lat.]Open.
~ Samuel Johnson
To ADDRESS  (ADDRE'SS)   v.a.[addresser, Fr. from dereçar, Span. from dirigo, directum, Lat.]1. To prepare one's self to enter upon any action; as, he addressed himself to the work. It lifted up its head, and did addressItself to motion, like as it would speak.Shakesp.Hamlet.
~ Samuel Johnson
AMBIDEXTER  (AMBIDE'XTER)   n.s.[Lat.]1. A man who has equally the use of both his hands. Rodiginus, undertaking to give a reason of ambidexters, and left-handed men, deliverth a third opinion.Brown'sVul. Err.2. A man who is equally ready to act on either side, in party disputes. This sense is ludicrous.
~ Samuel Johnson
In the mean time, to Balls, Routes, Drums, and so-forth; and to qualify me for these latter
~ Samuel Richardson
You need a third option, he said. Yeah. I guess i do. He nodded, absorbing this. Well, he said,For what it's worth, it's been my experience that they don't appear at first. You kind of have to look a little more closely. And when does that happen? He shugged. When you're ready to see them, I guess.
~ Sarah Dessen
This isn't about him. It's about you. You shouldn't do anything you're not ready for.
~ Sarah Dessen
Io? Io amo la vecchia troia così com'è e mi piace pensare di esser pronto ad accogliere anche il peggio che essa abbia da offrirmi. Io veramente adoro la vita, e se non posso raggiungerla in faccia, lascio andare il mio bacio un poco più in basso.
~ Saul Bellow
Tko traži sre?u - morao bi biti spreman na loš ishod.
~ Saul Bellow
All systems go. Everything is A-OK.
~ John A. Powers
Patience prepares the mind for the opportunity.
~ John Baldoni
Be prepared. *smacks chest*
~ John Bytheway
But luck is never enough. The leader needs to be ready when opportunity knocks. It is sad when we don't get any breaks in this life, and sadder still when we don't recognize them when they make their appearance. But the saddest thing of all is not to have readied ourselves to make the most of them.
~ John C. Bogle
Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.
~ John Calvin
When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.
~ John Connolly
It's the right idea, but not the right time.
~ John Dalton