Quotes About Preparedness

Keep your powder dry.

A person should always carry two things in this world: a valid passport and a sweater.

Care for your men. Maintain discipline. Always set an example. You take fewer casualties attacking than retreating: "Your job is not to die for your country but to make the other son of a bitch die for his country." Once engaged, give no quarter. Drill, drill, drill. Stay alert, stay alive.

To put the military factors in their proper perspective when deciding the political objective is a task for the statesman alone. Were he to wait until his armed forces were completely ready for war, then he would never act because armed forces are never ready – nor are they ever to be considered ready.

There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience." - David Levithan

Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

Der erste Schritt zum Überleben ist ein offenes Auge dafür, was zur Hand ist und was als Nächstes getan werden muss. Wer in müßiger Hoffnung auf Hilfe wartet, der vertut sein Leben mit Träumerei.

You need to be ready, to adapt quickly and learn fast.

I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.

I like to keep my mind and physical state alert.

I believed that if someone approaches me with a good offer and says 'let's begin tomorrow,' I should be ready.

I'm armed and ready when my number is called.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

A good general is ready for every option.

No man can think on everything;we can only be ready for everything

Although we should hope for peace, we must be prepared for war

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by surprise.

Normally, I always had a machine gun in my car and a bulletproof vest.