Readiness Quotes

• We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Letters and Papers from Prison".

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• The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

  Bill Paxton

  Fate, Destiny, Discipline

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

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Enemy, Preparing For War

  Sun, Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.103, Aegitas

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.

  Marianne Williamson

  New Beginnings, Path, Moments

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 23, 2011

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• One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

  Mark Millar

  Opportunity

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• The readiness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Inspirational Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [232]

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• It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Self

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• Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, Worry, Doe

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• Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

  Frederic Flach

  Life, Years, People

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• I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.

  Spike Lee

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

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• 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 do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Men, Live Free

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Blue, Nudge Nudge, People

  Eugene H. Peterson (1999). “Stories of Jesus: From the Text of the Message”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Inner Peace

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• It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Learning, Knowledge

  Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.158, Routledge

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• That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Opportunity, Soldier

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.323, Best Books on

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

  Edward Irving

  Ignorance, Pride, Scotland

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• There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Truth, Teaching, May

  Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.21

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• The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

  Thomas Huxley

  Fall, Humility, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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