Quotes About Preparedness

I show up ready to play, so I normally try and fit the situation.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They're more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.

From my perspective, to really be ready, we can't afford to have these deep degradations in readiness associated with personnel turbulence post-deployment.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

If someone wants to give me the lead in anyone of those films, and deal with those other complications, terrific, Im ready for them.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Father's favorite saying goes, trust in God and keep our powder dry.

I figured it was probably best for me to leave that bicycle back there for a real emergency.

Cover yourself!" I lift my gun.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

The reason that we don't have happy hours up here is because you never know when something might actually go sideways, and so we always have to be prepared in a worst, worst case scenario to jump on our spacecraft and go home. So, we have to keep it pretty straight and narrow while we're up here.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.