Better Be Prepared Quotes

#1. There isn't a submission in the world that can force me to tap out. If you get me in a hold, you better be prepared to snap a bone or kill me because I will not surrender. Call me stubborn, I know I am. Call me competitive or spoiled, I'm those things too, but what I am not, is weak.

Skyla Madi

#2. It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage ...

Robert Frost

#3. If you are going to open a can of worms, you better be prepared to go fishing!

Mary Walters

#4. When you change yourself to win someone's heart, you better be prepared to accept that this will now be your way of life forever.

Laura Schlessinger

#5. Compressing her lips together, she gave Mark a baleful glance, eyes flashing pure malice. If he wanted his lips anywhere near hers he'd better be prepared to do battle.

'Now that's what I'm talking about,' said Mark, as the corner of his lip began to twitch in amusement.

C.P. Mandara

#6. If you let someone sweep you off your feet, you better be prepared to land on your ass.

Devan Sipher

#7. If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.

Gary Larson

#8. Jesus, if you're going to push me around, you better be prepared to fuck me like you own me.

Belle Aurora

#9. When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

Robyn Davidson

#10. If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#12. I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film.

John Orloff

#13. you had better give up hope at once. If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.

Arnold Bennett

#14. I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#15. It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

Will Smith

#16. All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today.

James Howell

#17. What shocked me, and what I wasn't prepared for, was just how brutal and how unethical some people can be in the NFL. I mean, there were some great people, but there were some real snakes, too. I was like, 'Holy cow!' But it made me a better person, and it got me ready for other things.

Terry Crews

#18. Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Maya Angelou

#19. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

Anonymous

#20. It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

Saint Ignatius

#21. I'm not sure that an athlete is prepared to be a role model. He has a lot of attention paid to him that he shouldn't have, and then the athletes tend to think of themselves as better than they are.

Bobby Knight

#22. 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

#23. The most immediate is that if you tell your partner "It's okay to ask for anything you want," it better be true. If you're not prepared to make it safe for your partner to open up to you, he won't. Because he'll feel he can't.

Franklin Veaux

#24. 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

#25. Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

Ed Bradley

#26. There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

Ricardo Semler

#27. England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#28. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Billy Graham

#29. We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.

Steve Mariucci

#30. I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.

Cecil O. Samuelson

#31. Develop the habit of initiating change. You'll be better prepared for whatever comes your way.

Gina Greenlee

#32. Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

Danica McKellar

#33. As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.

John Bingham

#34. I'm just trying to do whatever is asked of me. I've been thrown into many different positions. Sometimes I'm on the left. Sometimes I'm in the middle. Sometimes I'm up top. So you always have to be prepared. I'm learning a lot so hopefully I can keep getting better and better.

Freddy Adu

#35. Living the gospel does not mean the storms of life will pass us by, but we will be better prepared to face them with serenity and peace. 'Search diligently, pray always, and be believing,' the Lord admonished, 'and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly.'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#36. We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

Kurt Hahn

#37. Well we're good friends so I'm a little prejudice, but I think [Hillary Clinton] is incredibly qualified, and better prepared to be president than almost anyone who's ever run frankly.

Madeleine Albright

#38. I wanted not the favor of man to lean upon; for I knew Christ's favor was infinitely better, and that it was no matter when, nor where, nor how Christ should send me, nor what trials He should still exercise me with, if I might be prepared for His work and will.

Jonathan Edwards

#39. It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.

Sargent Shriver

#40. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.

Mitch Albom

#41. I believe that today's businesses - regardless of their size - must be prepared to do good in societies around the globe. I am cautiously optimistic that we can make the world a far better, safer and more equitable place - but business and enterprise must sit at the heart of this process.

Richard Branson

#42. You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way back up, and far less competition among buyers. It is almost always better to be too early than too late, but you must be prepared for price markdowns on what you buy.

Seth Klarman

#43. Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

Thucydides

#44. Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.

M.J. Rose

#45. Do you really know what they want?" "I don't have an absolute confirmation, but almost anything would be better than what I've prepared for." I laughed hoarsely. "Then, I'll probably find out that what they want is even worse than that. It usually works that way.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#46. The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we'll be better prepared to deal with life's problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don't reflect Christ ... when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.

Billy Graham

#47. If we can practice opening to the crises in our personal lives as teaching moments, as evolutionary stepping stones, we will be far better prepared emotionally and spiritually for the trauma that collapse will foist on us and everyone around us.

Carolyn Baker

#48. I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

Roger Moore

#49. I might be better prepared to slay dragons, I decided, than to flirt with boys.

William Ritter

#50. When we focus on winning the battle for material gains,we end up losing spiritual war.If we had a better self of ethics we would be better prepared to deal with the complicated world in which we find ourselves.

David V. Gaggin

#51. We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

#52. It is better to be prepared for what could happen then to let happen what you are not prepared for.

Dawn Hartley

#53. Bad days will come for each one of us, and the more we've thought these things through ahead of time, the better prepared we'll be when tragedy strikes or struggles emerge.

Terri Blackstock

#54. Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Stephen Covey

#55. Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Horace

#57. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Steve Harvey

#58. People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

Takeru Kobayashi

#59. I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

Meghan O'Rourke