Top 96 Quotes About Preparedness
#1. Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
Peter Benchley
#2. Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Theodore Roosevelt
#3. In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.
Tom Gross
#4. Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.
Michael Chertoff
#5. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
Laini Taylor
#6. Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Brigham Young
#7. There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
Irwin Redlener
#8. Preparation for life is so important. Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity. Opportunity is all around us. Are you prepared?
Earl Nightingale
#9. You can't prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.
Auliq Ice
#10. Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.
Joel Beeke
#11. Your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends.
James Yeager
#12. A sage traveling all day
is never far from the supplies in his cart,
and however spectacular the views
he remains calm and composed.
Lao-Tzu
#13. What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.
Steve Goodier
#14. For those of us who have come to believe that unless we are thinking we are wasting time, it may be challenging to simply linger with a beautiful sunset, an exquisite painting, or an arresting piece of music. The intellect often reacts to the seductions of beauty by attempting to recapture us.
Carolyn Baker
#16. It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
Theodore Roosevelt
#17. Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.
Spencer W. Kimball
#18. There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.
Irwin Redlener
#19. Death doesn't bother me but murder makes me edgy, and my lack of weaponry suddenly felt like a potentially fatal mistake. If we got back to the hotel alive, I wasn't coming back here again without my knife and the baseball bat. And maybe a tank, if I could find one fast enough.
Seanan McGuire
#20. I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.
Maya Banks
#21. Ed Catmull has thought a lot about the role luck plays at a great company, and how businesspeople manage that luck. It's all in the preparedness, he says, and in creating a culture that can adapt to the unexpected. "These things are always going to happen. What separates you is your response,
Brent Schlender
#22. Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#25. Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.
Venita VanCaspel
#27. What you are prepared to do in order to achieve what you want is the only cost involved in achieving that goal.
Steven Redhead
#28. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
#30. Pixar's Ed Catmull likes to say that since you can't control the luck itself, which is bound to come your way for better and for worse, what matters is your state of preparedness to deal with it.
Brent Schlender
#31. Did you even use anything at all in that bag of yours?"
"No, but I might use some of it later." And I almost certainly would, once I got rid of this crybaby and picked up my drag queen.
Cherie Priest
#32. Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered.
Janet Evanovich
#33. All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
Margaret Chan
#34. Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.
Bill Frist
#35. I feel as though I have leapt off this massive cliff and I am still building my wings ... Everyone just assumes I know how to fly, but I am pretty sure I am only falling gracefully and hoping to miss the ground.
Thomm Quackenbush
#36. I took the swab using the collection kit that I'd borrowed from Dominic who, I realized, had left the Boy Scout scale behind and was now verging on Batman levels of crazy preparedness.
Ben Aaronovitch
#37. There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.
George S. Patton
#38. Whether they are at an airline or at a command center, experts will err on the side of excluding the public, as we have seen. If they can avoid enrolling regular people in their emergency plans, they will. Life is easier that way, until something goes wrong.
Amanda Ripley
#39. America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.
John McCain
#40. I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.
Derek Landy
#41. Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#42. Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!
Deepak Chopra
#44. We'd be safer with musket in a safe town than with an assault rifle in a "without rule of law" world. That may not be sexy, but it's the truth.
Michael Mabee
#45. I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.
Wesley Strick
#47. We have no butter ... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.
Hermann Goring
#48. Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.
Deepak Chopra
#49. We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.
Petra Nemcova
#50. Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.
Bennie Thompson
#51. Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.
Florence Prag Kahn
#52. We are not preparing for the world we live in - we are preparing for the world we find ourselves in.
Michael Mabee
#53. The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.
Margaret Chan
#54. If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
#55. People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
Cormac McCarthy
#56. Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.
Ezra Taft Benson
#57. If you know that God may soon be entrusting you with a particular ministry, then it's important that you look ahead to what may be awaiting you in the future and see how you can prepare yourself for it
Sunday Adelaja
#58. We must prepare for a changing climate by incorporating climate preparedness into every aspect of our planning - for food, water, health, energy, even national security. We must reduce our emissions to prevent even more dangerous change.
Katharine Hayhoe
#59. Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don't have to.
James Hubbard
#61. Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.
Omar N. Bradley
#62. But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Tengo, IQ84
Haruki Murakami
#63. The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.
Masatoshi Nakayama
#64. Skills training and industry-preparedness are the distinct advantages these students have. At the completion of their degree they have been trained to be biotechnology professionals.
Lynn Dickey
#66. The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness.
Sheri Fink
#68. Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.
Margaret Chan
#69. Some famous person said, "Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck." I think that's a lot of it. It's being ready to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.
Jessica Livingston
#70. Jeevan's understanding of disaster preparedness was based entirely on action movies, but on the other hand, he'd seen a lot of action movies. He
Emily St. John Mandel
#71. FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.
Alcee Hastings
#72. Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.
Wu Ta-ch'i
#73. What matters in the story of our human relationships is not whether they lead to happily ever after but who and what they make of us. All relationships are our teachers, and this is especially so in a time of societal unraveling.
Carolyn Baker
#75. When used as a tool, fear will enhance your preparedness; when used as a guide, it will stop your progress.
Steve Maraboli
#76. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#77. Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.
Bobby Akart
#78. There's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.
Stephen King
#80. Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
Viswanathan Anand
#82. I prefer preparedness to a last-moment scramble, thank you." We
William Ritter
#83. Citizens are not prepared for attacks because there is a bias against the public by nearly every expert and government official. In emergency preparedness, there is this belief that public will panic, that the public is not to be trusted, that there will be looting.
Amanda Ripley
#84. The 3 key components for success are as follows: Psychological Preparedness Physical Conditioning Mental Toughness
Chuck Norris
#85. If a person accepts that she will stumble, fall, and even be struck down every now and then, then that is a constructive view because the person will be prepared. Preparedness is not the same as fatalism.
Gudjon Bergmann
#86. So few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
Emma Goldman
#87. Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.
Sheri Fink
#88. Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.
Narendra Modi
#89. The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.
Helen Keller
#90. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
E. M. Forster
#91. The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.
Christopher Hitchens
#92. Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.
Rachel Maddow
#93. pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#94. It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
#95. We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters ...
E. O. Wilson
#96. Your grandma always was an advocate of thorough preparedness. She would strongly advise staying not only armed to the teeth, but well equipped in the computational department. You've been taught you should really carry no less than 5 computers on you at all times, like a sensible person.
Andrew Hussie
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