#readiness

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#die #freely #hands #him #his

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#combat #duty #every #levels #located

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#does #fear #mean #readiness #worry

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#ball #base #body #eye #faculties

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#down #element #later #laying #malice

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector. ↗

— William Greider

#commercial #dollars #global #globalization #interests

All things are ready, if our mind be so. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#preparation #preparedness #readiness #attitude

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#readiness #responsibility #springs #thought

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form