Quotes About Readiness

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is created by the prepared.

Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

Luck is what happens, when preparation meets opportunity

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

In war, no matter how much you plan and prepare and practice, when the big day actually arrives, you still can't find your ass with both hands.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

When you are in readiness, you are in wakefulness. A smile can take you there. A simple smile. Just stop everything for one moment, and smile. At nothing. Just because it feels good. Just because your heart knows a secret. And because your soul knows what the secret is. Smile at that. Smile a lot. It will cure whatever ails you.

we are all led to the truth for which we are ready.

Discoveries can come in many different ways, and the most important thing is to be ready for them.

The time was 7:40 A.M. I reached for the phone. "Do you have your axe?" came the voice on the other end. It was Mad Dog. "Yes." "Is your axe sharp?" "No, but I can sharpen it while you're driving here." "How about your knife?" "Got it." "Everything needs to be nice and sharp.

I'm always ready for anything, but prepared for nothing.

Never ask a man if he wants a bulletproof vest or a pair of mittens. Just make him put it on.

Better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.

The Russian commander whose ship was torpedoed by SMS Emden off Penang on October 28, 1914, was certainly unprepared for the new age of global conflict. Only twelve rounds of ammunition were ready on deck; but there were sixty Chinese prostitutes below.

It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

Before all else, be armed.

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've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.