Preparedness Quotes

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

Preparedness never caused a war and unpreparedness never prevented one.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

[Donald] Trump's establishing his bona fides on military preparedness. No histrionics, just the facts.

We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.

When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready...the way is about to show up.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

So, the great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage. And the tragedy of life is to fail in that test and so fail to qualify to return in glory to our heavenly home.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

You may need to change your dreams.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year's supply. You don't argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.

The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God on the earth will be combined together at Christ's coming - and that time is not far distant. How I wish we could get the vision of this work, the genius of it, and realize the nearness of that great event. I am sure it would have a sobering effect upon us if we realized what is before us.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

Donald Trump in Philadelphia, and he's delivering a very substantive speech on military preparedness, the status of the current military. He detailed the deterioration of the U.S. military in the past eight years and explained how he's going to rebuild it and why we need to, and it's a very tough audience. It's an expressly military audience, and they are of course listening for any sign that he's not really genuine here. I think, knocking this out of the park as far as that audience is concerned.

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.

We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.

Recent surveys of Church members have shown a serious erosion in the number of families who have a year's supply of life's necessities. Most members plan to do it. Too few have begun... It is our sacred duty to care for our families, including our extended families.

Everyone who owns a home recognizes the need for fire insurance. We hope and pray that there will never be a fire. Nevertheless, we pay for insurance to cover such a catastrophe, should it occur. We ought to do the same with reference to family welfare.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Preparedness is the ultimate confidence builder.

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

As we have been continuously counseled for more than 60 years, let us have some food set aside that would sustain us for a time in case of need. But let us not panic nor go to extremes. Let us be prudent in every respect. And, above all, my brothers and sisters, let us move forward with faith in the Living God and His Beloved Son.

The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

The best place to have some food set aside is within our homes, together with a little money in savings. The best welfare program is our own welfare program. Five or six cans of wheat in the home are better than a bushel in the welfare granary. ... We can begin with a one week's food supply and gradually build it to a month, and then to three months. I am speaking now of food to cover basic needs.

The man who goes afoot, prepared to camp anywhere and in any weather, is the most independent fellow on earth.

More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.