Mental Preparedness Quotes

There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Some people just don't have the tools to deal with the stuff life throws at them.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

My mind goes to tragedy first.

Regardless of where you're pitching, regardless of what goes on before or after your game, you still have to be ready.

I always think of the good comebacks on the car ride home.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.

Aptitude starts with attitude.

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

Enlightenments, like accidents, happen only to prepared minds.

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

The word dropped like a stone on my still living breast. Confess: I was prepared, am somehow ready for the test.

The world would be a safer place, If someone had a plan, Before exploring outer space, To find the inner man.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.