Quotes About Readiness

Our reaction and attitude to persecution will determine if we are really ready for big things or not

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

They're willing to let Matt sit and wait until they believe he's ready and I can't do the best I'm capable of doing. I'm completely comfortable with that.

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

The great joke is that the next time is never like the last time, and yet we can't help readying ourselves for it anyway. This all reminds me of the Mayan conception of the universe.

Keep your powder dry.

A person should always carry two things in this world: a valid passport and a sweater.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

ready for the Rapture, there's no such thing as getting ready—there's only living ready. When you hear Jesus' shout, the archangel's voice, and God's trumpet (1 Thessalonians 4:16), you'll know that you're an eyeblink away from seeing your Savior's face. Make sure you're all about His business until He comes.

There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.

The thing about a spotlight is that you have to step into it. You have to get onto that stage. I haven't been ready for a lot of things, but from early on, I was ready for this.

Nobody's Ready for Marriage—Marriage Makes You Ready for Marriage

I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

You need to be ready, to adapt quickly and learn fast.

I kind of don't like to prepare too much for anything in advance.