Quotes About Readiness

History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.

I don't care who is next. I want anybody. I want everybody.

You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

You always think you're ready earlier than you are.

I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn't have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

If I'm called on, I want to be ready and efficient.

If I'm physically feeling ready, then fear does not enter my mind. I don't let fear enter my mind.

When you envision something in your head over and over again, it's like a movie placing you in that position, and once you are there you're ready.

But I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready, He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us...but it's up to us to do the walking.

now I know how I want death to come to me strolling in the slanting rain of light … I will say to Death, 'A moment, friend.' And then: 'I'm ready now.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.

A constant and joyous readiness at the call of God to depart hence [to heaven], with a cheerful patience to continue here [on earth] during His pleasure, is the most perfect and blessed temper that a Christian can arrive at. It gives God the highest glory and keeps the soul in sweetest peace.

So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don't recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself.

Try to foresee now everything that might make you interrupt your reading. Cigarettes within reach, if you smoke, and the ashtray. Anything else? Do you have to pee? All right, you know best.

toothbrush and dental powder; a mattress and cover, two sheets, one pillow case. An instant after

i know that i am young, but i am ready for the great responsibility that lies before me.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

Stick with me, Miss Lofton. I'm locked, loaded and ready.

Everyone right to go?

Queston 1. "On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 meaning 'not the least bit ready' and 10 meaning "totally ready", how ready are you to study? - After she offers her answer, move to: - Question 2. "Why didn't you pick a lower number?

Ready to hear me, ready to learn, ready to understand?