Willing Quotes - Page 35

• What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Earning, Pockets, Idlers

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• There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

  Robert Breault

  World, Forfeit, Deposits

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

  Tiger Woods

  Fall, Athlete, Giants

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• I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Team

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• The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

  John Updike

  Writing, Merit, Artistic

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• Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Positive Thinking, Self

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• Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Waiting, Grace

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• We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.

  Peter Gzowski

  Spring, Giving, Needs

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• If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

  Robert Breault

  Humility, Intelligent, Men

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• The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Humility, Men, Knows

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Hard Work, Home

  George W. Bush's speech at a Naturalization Ceremony at the DAR Administration Building in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 27, 2006.

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• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it; will be less attached to what he holds by a momentary or uncertain title, than to what he enjoys by a durable or certain title; and, of course, will be willing to risk more for the sake of the one, than for the sake of the other.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Risk, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1826). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution”, p.399

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• While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

  Aberjhani

  Hope, Art, War

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

  Aberjhani

  Grief, Fighting, Destiny

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• Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

  Edward Abbey

  West, Scientist, Mere

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• A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Home, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Lawyer, Kind

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: In 2 Vol”, p.82

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• I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

  Raquel Welch

  Acceptance, Giving, Burden

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• Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn.

  Robin Cousins

  Stars, Athlete, Skating

  "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.

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• There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

  John Hay

  Nature, Water, Tree

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• Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.

  David Bosch

  Breakup, Suffering, Conquer

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• His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is set before us here as the supreme example of what our attitude should be. If Jesus Christ the Lord of glory was willing to be obedient unto death, how much more should sinners saved by grace who owe everything to God give back to the God who saved them the life which He has redeemed.

  John F Walvoord

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Fun, Humility, Pride

  The Century magazine, 1892.

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• I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.

  Maria Echaveste

  Country, Working Conditions, Low Income

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