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

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

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Anne Sullivan

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

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

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

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.
Orlando Bloom

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
Ansel Adams

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Ansel Adams

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.
Thomas Huxley

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
Henry A. Wallace

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

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
John Chrysostom

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

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