Top 100 Be Prepared Quotes
#1. One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle
#2. As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.
Ellie Goulding
#3. To catch you're elusive dreams you must be prepared to track it to the ends of the earth. Let nothing stop you're pursuit of dreams.
Truth Devour
#4. There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.
Joe Zawinul
#5. The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
Ellen Key
#6. The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
John Calvin
#7. If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you've chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
Seth Godin
#8. I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
Ayn Rand
#9. The American people expect the president of the United States to be prepared to support action to protect the people of this nation. And I know Donald Trump will.
Mike Pence
#10. If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience. Writers who aren't willing to do those two things will fail. Period.
Sean Platt
#11. Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
Menander
#12. Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.
William Symington
#13. I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.
Walter Munk
#14. The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.
Benjamin Franklin
#15. A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Stan Sakai
#16. But the only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you.
Bryan Cranston
#18. In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
Mike Tyson
#19. Once you know you are on the right path, you must stay focused and be prepared for the devil's attacks
Sunday Adelaja
#20. With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#21. So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.
John C. Calhoun
#22. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but also try to be prepared for the unexpected.
Radovan Kavicky
#23. Every time you publish a book, be prepared to eat a fresh slice of humble pie.
Shana James
#24. Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.
Susan Sontag
#25. You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber
#26. Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then," said Will. "I'll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.
Cassandra Clare
#27. Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley
#28. Apostolic ministry and suffering are inseparably entwined, and those who answer the apostolic calling must be prepared to face difficulty with a mastery of it. Without this ingredient in place, the apostle (and the whole apostolic movement) will not endure.
David Cannistraci
#29. Do you sense any dead bodies nearby? I don't know if we'll need them, but it would be nice to be prepared.
Amanda Carlson
#30. If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
Elisabeth Elliot
#31. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
#32. Ah," said the magus, understanding at once. "I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again."
"Surely that's unlikely," said Sounis.
"I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us," said the magus.
Megan Whalen Turner
#33. There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.
Jimmy Sangster
#34. We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
Don Meyer
#35. The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#36. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you.
A.E. Samaan
#37. Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
Akon
#38. To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
Stirling Moss
#39. For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.
Evan Davis
#40. I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
John Le Carre
#41. I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio.
Danny Clinch
#42. It's better to be prepared than to get ready.
Will Smith
#43. In the best Utopia, I must be prepared for the moral fall of any man in any position at any moment; especially for my fall from my position at this moment. Much
G.K. Chesterton
#44. Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create - God help you if you do, God help you if you can - don't you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.
Stephen King
#45. life is not something you can plan down to the moment. It happens. You try your best to be prepared for whatever life brings, but the one thing you can't do as long as you're breathing is stop it from happening.
Debra Webb
#46. A country facing an aggressive enemy must decide either to be prepared to fight effectively or to follow the path of nonviolence to the end. In either case, the decision must be wholehearted and the consequences must be accepted.
Freeman Dyson
#47. In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays
#48. Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.
Kerri Walsh
#49. What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
Epictetus
#50. Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.
Curtis Jackson
#51. I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.
Pat Metheny
#52. Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
Richard Rohr
#53. A great yellow circle above the cornfield had slipped out from behind some clouds. The moon. It was the first moon Flora had ever seen. Her heart filled with the beauty of it, and she made a promise to herself. I will be prepared. And I won't live forever inside this pen.
Chris Kurtz
#54. It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
Joseph Story
#56. Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
Hippocrates
#57. Always be prepared one day the electricity will stop if your phone isn't charged well and you don't have the need stuff you will get bored very easy. For example you can't read a physical book, you will need a torchlight, but if you have a book on your phone you can read it also you can listen!
Deyth Banger
#58. Crowdsourcing is an invaluable resource for filmmakers, but be prepared for an enormous amount of work.
Chris Hegedus
#59. I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.
George Harrison
#60. Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.
Simon Kuznets
#61. Whatever happens ... men, women and children have to be prepared to put other people first and thereby create the miracle of the species which is people living together in harmony and putting other people first, before themselves.
Bob Maguire
#62. If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
Gary Larson
#63. The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.
George Washington
#64. Which side is yours?"
"They're both mine," he answered mirthfully, having gotten a good bit of teasing over the years for his indiscriminate sprawling. "Take whichever side you like, and be prepared to defend it.
Varian Krylov
#66. If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, they should at the very least be prepared to insist that Iran changes its behavior before the deal expires.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#67. In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.
John Mica
#68. Christ warned His followers that to believe in Him would not make them popular, and that they should be prepared to face affliction for His sake.
Billy Graham
#69. You must, when called upon, be prepared to defend resolutely and to protect, when possible, the helpless and hidden life of the child, following the divine precept 'Non occides': You shall not kill (Exodus 20:13). Such
Pope Pius XII
#70. Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.
Kathy Sierra
#71. You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.
Alyson Stoner
#72. If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
#73. You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.
Bob Costas
#74. There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H.L. Mencken
#75. Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.
Jay Kay
#77. You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.
Auliq Ice
#78. If you truly want to succeed, be prepared to go the extra mile.
Napoleon Hill
#79. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.
Karina Halle
#80. We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such an enterprise should be prepared to become master of the country the first day he lands, or failing in this find everything hostile to him.
Thucydides
#81. One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
Mother Meera
#83. In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
Kenny Marchant
#84. The mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
Louis L'Amour
#85. We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.
M. Russell Ballard
#86. You've heard the freshmen fifteen? Be prepared for the Shaw twenty.
Emma Chase
#88. Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.
Franklyn Ajaye
#89. Study God's word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.
Calvin W. Allison
#90. The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
Alton Brown
#91. America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.
Henry Rollins
#92. Be Prepared ... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell
#93. Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.
Sebastian Pinera
#94. We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.
Margaret Kennedy
#95. As we prepare our homes to be places where the Spirit is welcome, we will be prepared to feel more 'at home' when we enter the House of the Lord.
Linda K. Burton
#96. Uncle Hoppy only laughed. "Just you wait," he said. "Before we get home we will meet the man who was supposed to be in that chair. And when we do, his heart will be prepared. Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God." And
Brother Andrew
#97. I will just take some extra stuff, to be prepared for something in advance.
Deyth Banger
#98. Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel's sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.
Joseph Bayly
#100. One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.
Simone Weil
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