Willing Quotes - Page 37

• Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

  Magic Johnson

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Player

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• Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with or without counting on wealth, fame, power, or public acceptance as an outcome.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Commitment, Acceptance

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.21, Pearson Education

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• More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Ignorance, Thinking, Opportunity

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• The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

  Mark Potok

  Children, Block, California

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• Anything coach Babcock needs me to do, I'll do it and if it's face-off well, I'm willing and ready to do that obviously.

  Patrice Bergeron

  Hockey, Needs, Faces

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• Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

  William A. Connelly

  Mean, Army, Knowing

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• Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our Nation, will be in great shape for a long time to come as these people continue to grow and assume greater positions of responsibility.

  James T. Conway

  Military, Team, Responsibility

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• There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.

  Lee Ainslie

  Believe, Everyday, Doe

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• God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate, Suffering, Down And

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• It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

  Barclay Plager

  Fighting, Hockey, Winning

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• I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

  Mike Ditka

  Motivational, Success, Believe

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• There are no limits on your dreams if you're willing to work for it.

  Shannon Miller

  Dream, Gymnastics, Limits

  "Interview With Olympic Gold Medalist Shannon Miller". Interview with Jen Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.

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• Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.

  Bela Karolyi

  Gymnastics, Sacrifice, Goal

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• The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

  Will Durant

  Nature, Motivation, People

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• Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

  Sarah McLachlan

  Giving Up, Fighting, Night

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• I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

  Michael Hyatt

  Humility, Want, Sovereignty

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• The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Smart, Opportunity, Giving

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• ...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Sports, Adventure, Destiny

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• Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Motivational, Cheer, Inspirational Life

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• I would never describe Charlotte as a prude. Maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing and I mean, thank goodness!

  Kristin Davis

  Girl, Mean, Prudes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Europe, World

  Speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 Sept. 1938, in Max Domarus (ed.) Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen 1932-1945 (1962) p. 927

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• If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Life

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.68, Canongate Books

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• The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

  Millard Fillmore

  Country, Men, Presidential

  Millard Fillmore (1970). “Millard Fillmore Papers”

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• You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

  Zoe Saldana

  Motivational, Morning, Commitment

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• Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.

  Vaclav Havel

  Powerful, Patriotic, Rights

  "Attempts to Escape the Logic of Capitalism" by Slavoj Zizek in London Review of Books, Volume 21, No. 21 (pp. 3-6), www.lrb.co.uk. October 28, 1999.

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