Willingness Quotes - Page 23

• Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

  Ilana Mercer

  Country, Law, Break

  "Joe Horn: Wanted Man...And a Hero". www.ilanamercer.com. July 4, 2008.

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• If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, Sorry, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 232, 1895.

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• The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive

  Mike Murdock

  Forgiving, Longevity, Decided

  FaceBook post by Dr. Mike Murdock from Nov 16, 2013

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• The past several months have brought on much introspection, and I have decided that while my desire to compete on Sundays is still and always will be there, my willingness to commit to the preparation necessary to play another season has waned to a level that I feel is no longer adequate to meet the demands of the position.

  Kerry Collins

  Sunday, Past, Play

  "Kerry Collins Has Retired From The NFL After 16 Seasons". www.businessinsider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

  Tyler Cowen

  Down And, Information, Return

  "Which job skills will be most important in the future?". Interview with Eric Barker, theweek.com. December 17, 2013.

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Passion, Eye

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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• There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Doe, World, Earth

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270" by Sri Chinmoy, (#18991, Part 190), 1983.

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• If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

  Nick Hanauer

  Real, Care, Social

  Source: gawker.com

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• Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

  Gerald May

  Yield, Giving, Mastery

  Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.

  Kenneth G. Mills

  Thinking, Time To Think, Take Time

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• Sure, you need enormous amounts of technical expertise to be the best in the world. But to accomplish mindfulness, you just need something you already have: the willingness to quiet down, clear the crap and trust yourself.

  Danny Gregory

  Mindfulness, Needs, World

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• The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

  Learned Hand

  Survival, World, Social

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.

  Neil Gaiman

  Decision, Magic, Concerned

  "The Books of Magic (Book IV: The Road to Nowhere)". Comic book mini-series by Neil Gaiman, 1990-1991.

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• I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Knowing, Not Knowing, Turns

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.5, Rodale

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• Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Risk, Oneself

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.297, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

  Warren Farrell

  Daughter, Lonely, Children

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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• Risk is the willingness to fail.

  Kathleen Turner

  Risk, Failing

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• The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.

  Alan Dershowitz

  War, Air, Israel

  "Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways". Book by Alan Dershowitz, February 17, 2006.

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• A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

  Hope Powell

  Football, Team, Passion

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent the people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Federalism, Clinton

  "The Keyes-Obama Debates: Africans and African Americans". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, quod.lib.umich.edu. August 15, 2004.

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• To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

  Paul Krugman

  Sacrifice, Past, Skills

  "Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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• As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.

  Scott McClellan

  Team, Texas, Iraq

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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