Quotes About Preparedness

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

You must plan, and you must train, for the battle you don't want to fight, against the enemy you don't want to face, on the ground you don't want to defend. Then, and only then, do you have a credible deterrent.

I buy onions every time I'm in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.

Drake's hand snatched at his mic, what felt like a day late and many dollars short, to warn the pilots – that they had basically just brought a knife to a dogfight.

In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes. Now, part of the reason for this is that we've invested a huge amount in nuclear deterrents. But we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We're not ready for the next epidemic.

when the science community shuts its collective mind to what Mother Nature might do because it's just too scary to contemplate, as some have done with Ebola virus transmission, we surely won't be better prepared for the next biologic curveball, whatever it happens to be.

But there is nothing interesting about being unprepared.

Forewarned forearmed.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth...But these transformations require that a person be prepared to perceive unexpected opportunities.

The citizens of Joplin were unwittingly being trained not to act when the sirens sounded.

If it's raining, open an umbrella.

followers of Tao meld the way of the warrior and the sage. They want the courage and preparedness of the fighter, the luminous perception of the wise.

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity.

Even when called out By a single foe, Remain on guard, For you are always surrounded By a host of enemies

Everything that hasn't happened is nonsense. But when it does happen, it is better to be prepared. I like to discount the future until I see the sun rise on a new day.

Someone's might be ready, Someone's may not, Mine is not ready, But I have no issue.

If something bad can happen, it will.

The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare.

A nice girl should never go anywhere without a loaded gun and a big knife." ~ Sarah Agnes Prine

I always keep one cold, just in case," Jake said as he uncorked the bottle and took out two crystal flutes, and Joanna smiled with delight at this new bit of insight into Jake's life—what a wonderful man he was, what an optimist, always to have a bottle of champagne ready, always certain, even after all life had tossed him, that on any normal day life might give him something to celebrate.

When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.