Top 100 To Be Prepared Quotes
#1. If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
Carly Fiorina
#2. You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.
Kelly Cutrone
#3. If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.
Harry Harrison
#4. Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
Geraldo Rivera
#5. There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.
Ronald Reagan
#6. Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.
Michael Eisner
#7. By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If [food] was presented to one of them, he would eat, otherwise, he would be silent; and he would not care if it was hot or cold.
Abu Nuaym
#8. By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared.
Deepak Chopra
#9. not waste his energy on it. He would give his best to prevent her abduction, but if his best failed he had to be prepared to face the cellar. And so, Josh wanted the dreams, he wanted to remember every disgusting detail and use it to his
I.C. Camilleri
#10. 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
#11. The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.
Ariana Grande
#12. God is able to stand in my yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He knows things and sees things for which I need to be prepared.
Lysa TerKeurst
#13. 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
#14. If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace
no matter what your diploma says.
Rod Blagojevich
#15. The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.
Kevin Allen
#16. I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
Malcolm McLaren
#17. The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.
Mary Gaitskill
#18. The passage from the big to the little is what makes Paris beautiful, and you have to be prepared to be small - to live, to trudge, to have your head down in melancholy and then lift it up, sideways - to get it.
Adam Gopnik
#19. From the looks of it, he spent a lot of time outdoors and liked to be prepared, both big pluses in Billie's book.
Elaine Hussey
#20. What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#21. Piper's lust was like a single bear trap in the wilderness. It was nearly impossible to find if you were looking for it, but it was something you wanted to be prepared for if you stepped into it by accident.
Maggie Stiefvater
#22. If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.
Romola Garai
#23. If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.
Mick Jagger
#24. When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.
Howard Tayler
#25. When you burn a bridge, you have to be prepared to live with some ashes.
Chris Coppernoll
#26. I like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.
Nimrat Kaur
#27. What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.
William Shatner
#28. Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.
Brandon Sanderson
#29. Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.
Robert Winston
#30. All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.
Franz Bardon
#31. Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
Howard Bloom
#32. We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.
Angela Merkel
#33. A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.
Juliette Gordon Low
#34. At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.
Nicholas Ozeki
#35. You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.
Damian Barr
#36. My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
Domhnall Gleeson
#37. That's why so many people want to play Hamlet: because it's a completely demarked role, and the actor playing it has to be prepared, through the language, to allow the audience to see into who he is.
Cate Blanchett
#38. I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.
Wynton Marsalis
#39. You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.
Gabriel Orozco
#40. Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it's like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it.
Big Bank Hank
#41. If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.
Graeme Simsion
#42. You never know what the wind will blow your way, baby; you've just got to be prepared to dance to the music God provides.
Stacy Hawkins Adams
#43. There are a lot of pros and cons about social media; it's just how you choose to handle it and how you have to be prepared for the negatives as well.
Aubrey Peeples
#44. When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Larry Ellison
#45. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
Geoffrey Canada
#46. There are lessons to life That the lovers got to learn There are corners out there You know they're waitin' somewhere And you've got to be prepared to turn There are callouses that come That the lovers got to earn In the years of your youth You can't be fire proof You know you've got to get burned.
Harry Chapin
#47. Readers really want to come back to an author; they do not want a one-book wonder. That is all very well, but to be career author, you have to be prepared to write one really good book and then write another really good book and keep feeding your readers. You build your audience over a long time.
Stephanie Laurens
#48. Personally, I like reading adventures which really have happened to people, because they show what kind of things might happen to oneself, and they teach one how to 'Be Prepared' to meet them.
Robert Baden-Powell
#49. One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
Andrew Rosenthal
#50. When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.
Pearl Cleage
#51. If you don't have a sense of adventure in this job, then you're not going to do very well. You have to be prepared for the unexpected, and that's one of the reasons why you really, really, really have to trust the people you're going to work with because you don't know what's on the other end.
Cush Jumbo
#52. If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
Shashi Tharoor
#53. The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.
Susan Cain
#55. As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
Josh Elliott
#56. Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.
Helmut Jahn
#57. 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
#58. I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money
Ayn Rand
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. But the only way to get lucky is to be prepared for luck to find you.
Bryan Cranston
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Hope for the best, plan for the worst, but also try to be prepared for the unexpected.
Radovan Kavicky
#66. Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Pat Riley
#67. 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
#68. Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Nigel Short
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio.
Danny Clinch
#73. It's better to be prepared than to get ready.
Will Smith
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
Epictetus
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
Joseph Story
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle
#85. For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.
Thomas Raymond Kelly
#86. As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Dominique Moceanu
#87. There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
Henry De Montherlant
#88. I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Cliff Richard
#89. Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Jane Austen
#90. I'm not looking for a boyfriend - but if I was, he'd have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.
Jyoti Amge
#91. If a hurricane strikes, we can blame the president for not being there; we can blame Congress and FEMA; we can blame the state governments; but in the end, it's the mayors and the local city governments that have to be prepared for emergencies and be prepared to act.
Michael Bloomberg
#92. If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
G. Willow Wilson
#93. You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
Carly Fiorina
#94. You have to be prepared to take a spill.
Shaun White
#95. You need to be prepared to move."
"Why?" I sat up and looked out the windshield, straight into a raging sandstorm. "Oh ...
Rick Riordan
#96. It pays to be prepared.
Aesop
#97. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
#98. My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.
Aerin Lauder
#99. 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
#100. I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.
Monica Keena
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