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Quotes About Preparedness

It's like hitting yourself in the head with a rock all day so you can be prepared in case something falls out of the sky and hits you in the head.
~ Jen Sincero
My inner Boy Scout had to try." If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
But here's the thing- even if there aren't any aneurysms in there, these facts won't change: I will still be someone who watches; I will still be someone who is prepared and on the lookout, because at any moment the earth could stop spinning. I've lived through the worst thing that can ever happen to me, and I know firsthand what the world can do.
~ Jennifer Niven
Who never lost, are unprepared
~ Emily Dickinson
I am unarmed. But Butler here, my…ah…butler, has a Sig Sauer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, a derringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun grenades concealed in various pockets. Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir." "Oh, yes. A good old ball-bearing cosh stuffed down his shirt.
~ Eoin Colfer
When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.
~ Erich Fromm
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
~ AMELIA E. BARR
It is better to be safe than sorry.
~ American Proverb
Redeless (adj.) Not knowing what to do in an emergency. Redeless has a variety of meanings, but this is the one that speaks to me the most. In yet another case of the rare thing enjoying a common word and vice versa, it is interesting to note that redeless has largely (or entirely) fallen by the linguistic wayside, while savoir faire (which originally meant "knowing what to do in an emergency") has survived. Redonation
~ Ammon Shea
now literally armed
~ Amy Lane
My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
~ Felicity Jones
Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
~ Neil Armstrong
As cyber threats evolve, we need to evolve as well.
~ Christopher A. Wray
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
~ Peter Lynch
Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.
~ Mark Hatfield
From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
~ Scott Gottlieb
There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end. And then there are pragmatists, and I would consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic person.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
Precaution is better than cure.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Premier League is very competitive and you have to be prepared for that.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I know where confidence comes from: Work and preparation.
~ Tom Thibodeau
I know how to prepare my head.
~ Danny Bautista
We always prepare for winning the match.
~ Marco Silva
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
~ Jimmy Doolittle