Quotes About Preparedness

Travel light, and death will never find you.

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.

Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them

Pissing in your pants will only keep you warm for so long.

It is very dangerous to get caught without something to read.

When a German American vacationing in Florida was caught unprepared by a cold snap and exclaimed within hearing of witnesses, "[D]amn such a country as this," he was arrested for having violated the Espionage Act.

Más vale un por si acaso —argumentó el mayor— que un quién lo iba a decir.

Una precaución de más es una sorpresa de menos.

Tell me you have a plan." He swore when Colt didn't answer right away.

Don't do anything quickly, Tag had told him. And whatever you do, don't hit your brakes. You'll end up in the ditch. He caught something in his headlights. It took him a moment to realize what he was seeing before his heart took off at a gallop. A car was upside down in the middle of the highway, its headlights shooting out through the falling snow toward the river, the taillights a dim red against the steep canyon wall. The overturned car had the highway completely blocked.

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab the frozen dinners and the McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

If a person, an athlete is not versed in something, their first reaction when there is a bad situation is not a good feeling. It's panic.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge.

I'm emotionally and physically ready for anything.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

I feel like I'm ready to contribute at the highest level possible.

I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.

People can only do what they are ready to do when they are ready to do it.

When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.