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"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
Robert Baden-Powell
"Be Ready." "Be ready for what?" "Why, for anything that might come up."
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You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
Robert Greene
You must always be willing to take a risk and invest in yourself by going down a path that others may not be daring enough to traverse.
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Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Meister Eckhart
At all times, be in readiness to accept the divine beneficence and be prepared to embrace novel favor. For the Lord is infinitely more inclined to bestow than we are willing to accept.
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
Nelson Mandela
One cannot be ready for something while covertly assuming it will not occur.
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Be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.
Saint Peter
Be ready to provide an explanation to anyone who inquires about the trust that you possess.
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
Thucydides
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You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.
Herb Brooks
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A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.
Stan Sakai
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Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.
Iyanla Vanzant
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Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.
Ben Brantley
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All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
Ben Affleck
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Jose Bergamin
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
Beanie Sigel
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When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.
Robyn Davidson
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I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.
Dakota Johnson
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It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
Sargent Shriver
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There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.
Joe Zawinul
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I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.
Shel Silverstein
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You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber
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Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.
Larry Winget
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A warrior who is prepared to fight must also be prepared to die.
Sun Tzu
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The thrill of not knowing what's going to happen, trained me to be prepared for anything.
Ariana Grande
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If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.
Che Ahn
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You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
Bob Dylan
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Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono
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It's better to be prepared than to get ready.
Will Smith
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In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.
Bill Moyers
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Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about
Hillman Curtis
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Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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You have to be prepared to take a spill.
Shaun White
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I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio.
Danny Clinch
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As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.
Arundhati Roy
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Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.
Beatrix Campbell
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To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.
Arianna Huffington
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Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.
Rebecca St. James
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The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.
George Washington
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You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.
Dave Barry
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
Carly Fiorina