Be Prepared Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Competition, Excellence, Important

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• You have to be prepared to take a spill.

  Shaun White

  Spills, Prepared

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• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Preparation, Causes, Imperfect

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• As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

  Christopher Dodd

  Leadership, America, Challenges

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• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  Dan Quayle

  Witty, Responsibility, Political

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• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

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• 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

  Games, Dull, Great Ones

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• Be prepared and be honest.

  John Wooden

  Life, Truth, Honesty

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.153, B&H Publishing Group

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• I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

  Stephen King

  Funny, House, Sanity

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• If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Crazy, Sacrifice

  "With Kennedy". Book by Pierre Salinger, Chapter 1: Lancer to Wayside, page 1, 1966.

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• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Leadership, Community Living, Preparation

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2145, Delphi Classics

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• Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

  Kiana Tom

  Hard Work, Cutting, Careers

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• Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

  Pat Riley

  Change, Sports, Promotion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

  James D'arcy

  Believe, Fighting, People

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• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  J. Carter Brown

  Luck, Important, Dimensions

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• There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Fifty, May

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• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  Van Morrison

  Motivational Sports, Winning, Order

  Song: Hard Nose the Highway, Album: Hard Nose the Highway

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• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Opportunity

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• If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Civilization, Use

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.514, Harvard University Press

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• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Mother, Nature, Years

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• If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Fighting, Should Have, Air Power

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• Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Military, Preparation

  "My Early Life: 1874-1904".

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