Quotes About Preparedness

never to be caught by another Pearl Harbor.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Strap it on whenever it's possible.

Here is a very simple strategy of life: When the train arrives at the station, be at the station!

Are you ready to fight?" "We'll have to be ready, won't we? You make do with what you have.

bisogna essere preparati a tutto, anche alla felicità.

We seem to be sitting around waiting for the next fucking disaster." he said, which went into the official log as - DCI Seawoll felt that our operational posture was too reactive.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself – ask any soldier. I stepped outside into the daylight.

Were ready for him!

I was acutely aware that any slip would be echoed and amplified, so I limited my participation to delivering my prepared remarks.

We wanted to act before we were forced to do so by a run.

There is no such thing as bad weather," he used to say, "only inappropriate clothing.

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.

I believe it is better to take extra precautions now than to regret later.

We deal with emergencies on a regular basis out here in the Plain States.

Hockey has changed. The game has changed. You just have to be ready for that.

You know, we lose more homes every year to flooding than we do any other event in America.

My parents prepared me for the worst, hoped for the best.

The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.

If you're always early, you're never late.

It is the bullet you don't hear that gets you.

It's better to have a weapon and not need it, they'd told me more than once, than need it and not have it.