Quotes About Readiness

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

A young panther in cufflinks and a pinstriped suit—a panther ready to pounce.

We sometimes use the term "savior complex" to describe an unhealthy syndrome of obsession over curing others' problems. The true Savior, however, seemed remarkably free of such a complex. He had no compulsion to convert the entire world in his lifetime or to cure people who were not ready to be cured.

Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

A woman who loved him would have to learn obedience, and I was not yet ready to be an obedient wife.

Knowledge is of no use unless it is actually in your mind, so that it can be produced at a moment's notice.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

I don't think it's a matter of ready-I mean, not in an all-the-way sense. You're never completely ready-you just get to the point where you're ready enough.

She's not a prepper, though she makes preparations.

Failure to be prepared is a failure to hope.

He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In

pistol holstered, he pulls on his sport coat and drops a spare magazine in one pocket, the radio-wave jammer in another.

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I say luck is when an opportunoty comes along, and you're prepared for it.

He pressed me firmly to him, and I could feel that he was more than ready to get on with the business at hand. With some surprise, I realized that I was ready too. In fact, whether it was the result of the late hour, the wine, his own attractiveness, or simple deprivation, I wanted him quite badly.

Diana Gabaldon

I drained my cup and sat still, waiting for the men to come out.

SOMETHING SUITABLE IN WHICH TO GO TO WAR

It's important to improve all aspects of my game so when the situation comes along, I will be ready.

I'm always ready to be attacked.

If you've done the work, done the training sessions, when you go into these games, you should feel ready. All you can ask is, 'Did you do your best, and try your best,' and then what happens, happens.