Readiness Quotes
156 Readiness quotes by 130 unique authors
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Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
— George Santayana
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished…
— Douglas V. Steere
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The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to…
— Emma Goldman
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Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty…
— Russ Feingold
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We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles…
— Al Gore
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When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish…
— J C Ryle
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
— John Selden
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Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques
— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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If you see the humanity in the world, grains of sand that bring everything to a halt — it's corruption, clashes of egos, human factors…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit,…
— Kurt Hahn
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The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."
— Marcus Aurelius
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I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant-…
— Swami Vivekananda
Who Wrote These Readiness Quotes
130 authors contributed a total of 156 Readiness Quotes, led by these top contributors: