Top 230 Be Prepared Quotes

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that.

I don’t mean that if you’re a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

I’m not drawn to actresses, but I have no rules about that. I just want to be around positive people. The toughest thing will be to find a girl who will be prepared to live in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the country. I don’t think L.A.’s the place to find one.

I’ve dreamt lucidly about how my Broadway debut would go and what that would feel like, but I know that I can’t be prepared for that.

I’m not saying everybody has to walk around with a six-shooter, but they have to be prepared. You don’t have to be militarized, but you have to be ready.

Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people.

I’m very anxious. If you’re going to fight the best fighters, you have to be prepared for a war, a highly-anticipated fight.

Being ready isn’t enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

My dad emphasized athletics. My mom did as well, but my mom was really hard on the academic end of things and always stressed, ‘Hey, you’ve got to have the grades, you’ve got to be prepared for life outside of sports.’

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you’re not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you’re doing will make you $100 million.

Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.

My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take place.

One thing I’ve learned from all my time with Team Canada is that they’re very, very prepared so knowing that’s part of the DNA of Team Canada, you have to be prepared with whatever area your responsibility belongs to.

I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.’

Confidence and belief in yourself and your vision is absolutely paramount. The fashion industry is tough – be prepared to take advice and criticism along the way, but have unwavering belief in your vision.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

The hard truth is that there are people who believe they’re writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don’t make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It’s okay if they haven’t, but it’s always better to be prepared for what’s coming.

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve… But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

You’ve got to really check on what you’re doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don’t quite have their game face on when the time comes. It’s always a pretty costly mistake.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don’t you think? That would be fantastic: ‘Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now – I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don’t go in, they’re anti-Semitic.’

Terrible things happen all of the time, and they can happen in a second. The best thing is to be prepared to react. If you try to control every little thing, you’re going to end up miserable – and you’re going to fail.

A samurai should always be prepared for death – whether his own or someone else’s.

I take Sudafed to combat my congestion, so I always carry some with me because I like to be prepared and make sure I’m ready whenever symptoms strike. It’s also a really good idea to figure out what your triggers are.

You must never ask or expect anyone to do anything that you would not be prepared to do yourself.

Whoever gives in to terrorism has to be prepared to do so many times.

I didn’t know what it meant or what it took to be healthy and be prepared for 82-plus games… Injuries come with sports. I know that. But you can be prepared, get your body as prepared as it can be through practice and weights.

From facing a manager for the past 16 years to suddenly being the one person everyone is looking at is a daunting prospect. It’s something I want to be prepared for. If I get the opportunity, I don’t want to let myself down.

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

If you don’t have a sense of adventure in this job, then you’re not going to do very well. You have to be prepared for the unexpected, and that’s one of the reasons why you really, really, really have to trust the people you’re going to work with because you don’t know what’s on the other end.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

You have to be prepared to take a spill.

You have to be prepared to go along the way life takes you.

I’m not looking for a boyfriend – but if I was, he’d have to be prepared to carry me around everywhere.

There are no guarantees in the music field. There’s a lot of rejection, a lot of criticism and a lot of disappointment. You have to be prepared for that. And after 1973, it just wasn’t happening for me.

You get used to cameras being with you 24/7, but you have to be prepared for people to have an opinion.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

As you prepare for the many things that fall brings, such as school, harvest and winter, it is important to be prepared for the unthinkable. Supplies and a plan will significantly reduce panic and chaos in the event of an emergency.

I am focused on ensuring all Alabama children get a good start and have the resources they need to complete school, be prepared for the workplace and ultimately succeed.

I’m on the daft scale. I mean, I am a typical Virgo in some ways. I am driven. I like to be prepared. I make lists. But I also like to muck around.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that’s me.

I work all summer and throughout the whole season to be prepared for the challenges that I have to face.

Because you never know when a transgender person is going to come into your life, you need to be prepared, and you need to be ready to help them.

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations – and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Always be prepared to start.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Whoever is in place to step forward and play that striker role has to be ready and be prepared to do the work because it is obviously a very tough job up top on your own. You have to put a shift in.