Not Ready Quotes

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  Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Unhappy, Realizing, Stuck

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• I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things.

  Robert Urich

  Fun, Kind, Ready

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• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Strength, Vampire

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• You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

  Neil Young

  Giving, Ready, Ifs

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• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Men, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Fall in love when you are ready, not when you’re lonely.

  Simon Nessman

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Best Relationship

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• If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal

  Paul Twitchell

  Thinking, Goal, Effort

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• My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

  Juliet Marillier

  World, Ready

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth...well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, People, One Day

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.44, Penguin

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• There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

  Winston Churchill

  Unique, Opportunity, Special

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• Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

  Marissa Mayer

  Cases, Worst, Ready

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• I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Answers, Want

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• I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Maturity, Ready

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• Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.

  Trent Shelton

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Sep 30, 2013

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• You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.

  Taylor York

  Ready, Stills, Knows

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• He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

  George MacDonald

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  George MacDonald (2016). “Unspoken Sermons, completed: MacDonald's Works”, p.172, VM eBooks

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• In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Denise Levertov (1993). “Evening Train”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• Even if you are not ready for day
  it cannot always be night.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Night, Slappers, Ready

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Vocabulary, Hajj

  Chicago Defender, November 28, 1962.

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• I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Worship Jesus, Christian Inspirational

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• It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

  Helen Mirren

  Maturity, Eight, Years

  Helen Mirren (2011). “In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.

  Nora Roberts

  Blow, Wind, Interesting

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Megan's Mate: The Calhouns”, p.80, Penguin

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• The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Effort, Ready, Ifs

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  If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

  Kevin Hart

  Giving Up, Struggle, Successful

  FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Feb 25, 2013

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