Readiness Quotes
156 quotes by 132 authors
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly.…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating…
— Lily Yeh
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
— H. L. Mencken
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It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not…
— Sun Tzu
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I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
— Thucydides
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
— Alexander Pope
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle…
— Winston Churchill
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The readiness is all.
— William Shakespeare
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Sannyas is the art of flying... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is…
— Rajneesh
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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...As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We…
— Anthony de Mello
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Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of…
— Lord Kelvin
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him;…
— Sun Tzu
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Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious…
— Vivian Gornick
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Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War…
— Franklin C. Spinney
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To put it simply, school readiness means creating in this country a public love of children.
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
— Newell Dwight Hillis
Who Wrote These Readiness Quotes
132 authors contributed a total of 156 Readiness Quotes, led by these top contributors: