You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
Denis Waitley

I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out.
Robin Williams

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

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

I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
Carter G. Woodson

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
Denzel Washington

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster