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People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand. Hank Aaron
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. Omar Bongo
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us back to the 14th century. That would be looking over a ledge that isn’t there. Anthony Fauci
The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over, and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn’t ready to appear ridiculous. John Mortimer
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. Zachary Taylor
Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again. Mason Mount
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. Neneh Cherry
The journey of filmmaking is so amazing. You start off with great confidence, and develop insecurity at the time of release. When you are ready with the finished product, you are constantly wondering if you have been honest to the story you started out with, if you got what you wanted. One is too close to the project by then to be objective. Mani Ratnam
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction. Kevin Spacey
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is ‘not ready’ to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start. Shirley Chisholm
There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can. Henry Van Dyke
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly… that’s what I call true friendship. Harbhajan Singh
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard. Harriet Tubman
We are always getting ready to live but never living. Ralph Waldo Emerson
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Cesare Pavese
Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’ Johnny Carson
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. Tiesto
If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. Alexis Herman
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin
I’m hungry. I’m ready to grow. Post Malone
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James
Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. Sarah Ban Breathnach
Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing. Wayne Dyer
You’re not really ready to live unless you know what you’re willing to die for. Rick Warren
If you’re not ready for everything, you’re not ready for anything. Paul Auster
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S. Grant
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level. Gary Busey
If you’re not ready to die, then how can you live? Charles de Lint
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design. Filippo Brunelleschi
I don’t want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don’t even know if I could handle a dog right now. I’m so not ready. Someday I’ll be a mom but not until I’m in my 30s. Avril Lavigne
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. Langston Hughes
I made the wrong decision many times. Sometimes I can accept it, sometimes not because football is like that. But in the end it depends on yourself and whether you are ready to move on or not. Dejan Lovren
Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it. John C. Maxwell
I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made. Cristiano Ronaldo
Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she’s one of the superstars. She’s ready for the big one, but she doesn’t stand a chance against me. Women’s tennis is so far beneath men’s tennis; that’s what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time. Bobby Riggs
If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started. Drew Houston
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. Charles Bukowski
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in. Viktor E. Frankl
I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. Michael Jackson
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. Oscar Wilde
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life. Will Smith
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets. Peter Lynch
You don’t have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I’m always in the gym, always training, all the time. Donald Cerrone
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now. Jurgen Klopp
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. Leonardo DiCaprio
I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out. Robin Williams
When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers. Mr. T
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Robert Burns
Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. James Taylor
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. Henry Ford
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. George Washington
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce
Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work. Kobe Bryant
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. Keanu Reeves
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready. Bruno Mars
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. Cher
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. William Blake
A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. Tryon Edwards
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. Nicholas II of Russia
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon
Trying to change before you’re ready isn’t likely to be productive. For example, most New Year’s resolutions don’t last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it’s going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure. Amy Morin
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. Dan Quayle
The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. John Paul DeJoria
If you’re not growing, you’re dying, and I’m not ready for that. Mary Steenburgen
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. Napoleon Hill
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt
The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are. Robert Kubica
An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany. Nick Cave
And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. Robert Frost
Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level. Jay Shetty
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough. Marissa Mayer
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. Thich Nhat Hanh
I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving. Andrew Zimmern
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got. Larry Bird
Life’s journey – it unfolds for you as you are ready for it. RuPaul
Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family. Jon Jones
I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me! Dr. Seuss
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. B. R. Ambedkar
C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts. Steven Van Zandt
I will fight till my last breath for the sake of 3.5 crore people of Telangana. I am ready to make any sacrifice for them. Vijayashanti
You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes! Sissy Spacek
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions. Denis Waitley
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is ‘no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.’ We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second. John F. Kelly
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one. Saint Ignatius
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. Tara Brach
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. Abraham Lincoln
I was born ready. Krzysztof Piatek
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter. Ansel Adams
When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people. Ralph H. Baer
I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I’m tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I’m tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I’d rather stay in bed, then it’s time to go. Dirk Nowitzki