65 Quotes About Preparedness

Part of knowing how to be prepared comes from being self-aware—being able to anticipate what you’ll need (or screw up) and planning accordingly. I know I am rarely, if ever, the smartest person in the room. And that’s totally OK. What’s not OK is (1) not recognizing that and (2) not coming ready to participate in a meaningful way.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

I’m sorry, but your friend is gone. Now, you need to get your shit together or we all gonna be gone, too.

Because you never know when the day before ... Is the day before. Prepare for tomorrow.

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

Preparation doesn't assures victory, it assures confidence.

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

As the worst comes to us when we are unprepared, so shall we Strive when the best in unexpected