Disaster Preparedness Quotes

• 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

  Arms, Enough, Natural

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Benjamin Franklin, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Benjamin Franklin Quotes... Vol. 23: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Benjamin Franklin”

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• there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

  Stephen King

  Optimistic, Long, Optimism

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

  Max Mayfield

  Preparation, Survival, Tragedy

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• Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Survival, Way, Program

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• Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

  Ray Mears

  Beauty, Real, Knowledge

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• Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

  Franz Kafka

  Needs

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• 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

  Skills, Weather, Mind

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• Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

  Jim Wallis

  Sometimes, Natural, Social

  "What the Waters Have Revealed" by Jim Wallis, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2005.

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• While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Recovery, Long, Attention

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• Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Hands, Disaster

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, War, Believe

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 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

  Agency, Hands, Focus

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