Best 26 quotes in «readiness quotes» category

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Our Duty is to Be Ready.

No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.

Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence.

The important thing in our understanding is to have a smooth, free-thinking way of observation. We have to think and to observe things without stagnation. We should accept things as they are without difficulty. Ou mind should be soft and open enough to understand things as they are. When our thinking is soft, it is called imperturbable thinking. This kind of thinking is always stable. It is called mindfulness.

The study book for life’s tests is the whole of our experience. Though we may feel unprepared, tests appear only when we are truly ready to ace them.

Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

To know in order not to be disoriented, To be able to seize the sense of the event, To avoid a mental anarchy, and to act effectively. - On Being Prepared

When you open the door, shoot anything that moves.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

She sucked up her tears and sniffled one last time. She wasn’t really ready, but she knew she had to be. She wiped her cheeks dry and summoned up all the courage she could muster. This was a matter of life and death. These strangers she was with would sooner leave her behind than risk their lives for her. She had to be tough, at least, for now.

When you are out of control, someone is ready to take over.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Readiness is the best way of truly taking care of soldiers.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

Common sense best dictates when balancing our needless and negative fear-driven worries with appropriate preparation and responsible readiness.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree