Be Prepared Quotes - Page 13

• Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

  Mildred Dresselhaus

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Sight

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

  Horace

  Yield, Sloth, Laziness

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

  Andrew Jackson

  Death, Strong, Sick

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• Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

  Neal Boortz

  Opportunity, Choices, Preparation

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

  Ronald Reagan

  Military, War, Forgotten

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say so,irrespective of the views held by your superiors or subordinates and of consequences to yourself.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Army, Views, Moral

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• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Strength, Military, Art Of War

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• No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

  Michael C. Burgess

  War, Looks, Devastation

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• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Wendell Willkie

  Freedom, Fighting, Equality

  One World (1943) ch. 13

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• It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Thinking, Victory

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.92, Routledge

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• Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Organization, Doe

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• More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Learning, Self

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• I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Believe, Fall

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• One should be prepared to surrender completely, absolutely to the will of God. Whatever He does is for our good.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.63, A&C Black

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• Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be prepared for action.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Compassion, People

  "Desmond Tutu on Compassion". Interview with Marc Ian Barasch, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2005.

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Giving, All Time

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.

  Larry Winget

  Success, Pay The Price, Including

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.229, Penguin

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• The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

  Stuart Hill

  Kindness, People, Hatred

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• One cannot simply read the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. That is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one’s own strength, one has to inquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Book, Thinking, Answers

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• Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Pulse, Modern Business

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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