“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

— Titon Rahmawan

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Titon Rahmawan

“Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united…. I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation.”

Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) former president of Syria

6 Days War: Crucial quotes, 2010-6-28 http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/crucial_quotes.htm,
Arab Threats Against Israel, 2010-6-28 http://www.sixdaywar.org/content/threats.asp,

“Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“We must march against the enemy, and teach him that he must go and get what he wants by attacking someone who will not resist him, but that men whose glory it is to be always ready to give battle for the liberty of their own country, and never unjustly to enslave that of others, will not let him go without a struggle.”

Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

Book IV, 4.92-[7]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book IV

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.”

William Wallace (1270–1305) Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Independence

Statement before the Battle of Stirling Bridge (11 September 1297), as quoted in History of Scotland (1841) by Patrick Fraser Tytler, p. 121
Context: We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.

“We shall never know of the numbers of "mute and inglorious Miltons" who failed because the place and time were not ready for them…Was not Sullivan a jewel in the wrong setting?”

Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

Ralph Vaughan Williams National Music (London: Oxford University Press, 1934) p. 7
Criticism

“To excuse himself from damage, must say, was ready always and at all times.”

John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England

Horn v. Lewins (1698), Fortesc. 235.

“To overcome oneself, one must reconcile and end the battle between heart and mind.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

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