Readiness Quotes
156 quotes by 130 authors
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Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design,…
— Unknown Author
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable.…
— William Bayliss
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His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as…
— William Montgomery Watt
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in…
— Thomas Huxley
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international…
— Abba Eban
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The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must…
— Winston Churchill
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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
— James Madison
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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
— James Madison
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In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of…
— Nelson Mandela
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object:…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
— Eric Hoffer
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We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
— Wendell Berry
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue…
— William James
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By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other…
— Christine O'Donnell
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this…
— Karl Popper
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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to…
— John Owen
Who Wrote These Readiness Quotes
130 authors contributed a total of 156 Readiness Quotes, led by these top contributors: