Quotes About Readiness

Forewarned is forearmed...

Speak again with Messer Simone and fish up what you can. Fair weather or foul, it's the part of wisdom to be prepared.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Before your turn the key, you have to get in.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

It began, as it often does, with a woman putting her ducks in a row.

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular.

Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

The time has to be right and the heart willing.

When the thunderclap comes, there is no time to cover the ears.

I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

For the One who sourced the writing will also lead the meeting, if she will let Him! In A Course in Miracles, it's written that we should be less concerned about our own readiness, and more consistently aware of His.

No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say Oh, my gosh, and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice.

Alessandro said, Most people don't do this, but it's what saves you. It tests you in the right way. Only for war, Rafi added. We'll almost certainly never have to go to war. It's unlikely that a war will break out in Europe, and even if it did it's less likely that Italy would be included, but I want to be prepared. And this is not just for war, you see, it's for everything.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN