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The readiness is all.
What we can control is our readiness.
There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
I'm relieved that the state of the Marines' readiness will remain high.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
The future of the U.N. will be determined by its readiness to change and adapt.
People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom.
Actors require flexibility, a kind of openness and readiness to leave their comfort zone.
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as you convert your readiness to willingness.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, my first priority is to ensure the readiness of our military.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.
The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.
From my perspective, to really be ready, we can't afford to have these deep degradations in readiness associated with personnel turbulence post-deployment.
When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.
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.
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.
Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.
Instead of measuring military readiness in terms of overall size and numbers, we must focus on metrics of capability, particularly in technology, and positioning.
The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.
The struggle against terrorists in the territory of Syria should be structured in cooperation with the Syrian government, which clearly stated its readiness to join it.
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.
If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.
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.
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
It is good to start as young as you can. What is more important is to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to start giving. Commitment and purpose are core to giving.
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.
I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
One of the most depressing aspects of the whole Brexit debate has been the rush to instant judgment about the motives of MPs and others and the readiness to accuse others of treachery or betrayal.