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

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.
Isabelle Adjani

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

Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
Stevie Nicks

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
Billie Jean King

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
R. A. Salvatore

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

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

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

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
Elizabeth II

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

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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Charles de Montesquieu

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley MacLaine

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham

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