Quotes About Preparation

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

To become aware, no matter how disturbing that reality is, is the first step to the resistance that we must be prepared to make in response.

The threat is real, and we as Americans must face that threat, prepare, and know what to do to prevent it. For if we do not, "one second after," the America we know, cherish, and love will be gone forever.

Anyone with even the remotest understanding of EMP and the threat to the nation should have been going insane before it hit.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

In planning a war, the most important task is to understand what can be planned and what cannot.

It is important both for the preparation for war and the conduct of war that they know that Fourth Generation war is, above all, light infantry warfare.

Your real intent should be not to die with weapons uselessly worn at your side.

What's past is prologue.

O! that a man might knowThe end of this day's business, ere it come.

Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.

Armed at points exactly, cap-a-pe.

Before thy hour be ripe.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job. There is a lot to be said for that. That isn't wisdom; that's common sense.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job.

History is seasonal, and winter is coming.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

To save energy, do not go out lookin' for trouble; chances are, it will find you soon enough.