Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

My mother taught me that it is important to be prepared for a last-minute polish.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish.

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

You always have to be on top of your game, because you never know what is going to happen.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

The time to hesitate is through.