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• The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

  Nikolay Konstantinov

  Teacher, Rewards, Students

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• Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Judging

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• Greatness as a leader is measured in part by your willingness to accept daunting challenges. Achieving tough goals requires practicing the secret of commitment: Risk all to win all.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Commitment, Winning, Greatness

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• One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Law, Unjust

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength, leading in a more life-positive direction.

  John Welwood

  Love, Years, Scary

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• Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

  Jack Hyles

  Risk

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• I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Attachment, Expectations, Joy

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• The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Lying, Men, Race

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Achievement, Risk

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• And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Character, Giving

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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• Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

  Garry Kasparov

  Levels, Chess, Loser

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• Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Stupid, Creativity

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• Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.

  Tacitus

  Character, Law, History

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• Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

  Jaron Lanier

  Perception, Suffering, Sake

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• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Hard Work, Fighting, Men

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• The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

  Steven Heighton

  Sides, Idiot

  Steven Heighton (2010). “Afterlands”, p.322, Vintage Canada

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• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

  Elaine Scarry

  Teacher, Order, Sky

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

  Jerry Bridges

  Biblical, Community, Important

  Jerry Bridges (1992). “The Crisis of Caring: Recovering the Meaning of True Fellowship”, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company

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• More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

  Ray Dalio

  People, Looks, Investing

  Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Running, Self, Faces

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.23, Penguin

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• Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

  Jim George

  Important, Service To God, Serving God

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• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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