Willingness Quotes - Page 31

• The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Reality, Order, Practice

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Real, Character, Sacrifice

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• Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

  Jeff Goodell

  Fighting, Electric Power, Coal

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• Your true potential will speak as loud as your willingness to listen will allow it.  If you simply breathe for the next 365 days, your life is going to be different, but is that the “different” you want to create in your life?  You have to make your possibilities welcome in your life.

  Mary Morrissey

  Different, Want, Next

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Function

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• You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

  Roger Goodell

  Ambition, Successful, Long

  "Roger Goodell talks crown-of-the-helmet rule, Tim Tebow, more". Interview with Steve Wyche, www.nfl.com. May 9, 2013.

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

  Sarah Miles

  Philosophical, Lenses, Way

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• The last couple years they've been good, but it's just a great group of guys, and they were willing to take the vision that we gave them in the beginning of the season, and we started off really well, which I think helped. But as I mentioned, Andre's sacrifice, David Lee's sacrifice, their willingness to accept roles and keep pushing really was the key to the whole thing.

  Steve Kerr

  Couple, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, Challenges, World

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• The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Christian, Gratitude, Heart

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• Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.

  Simon Sinek

  Sacrifice, Volunteer, Leader

  Twitter post from Aug 16, 2013

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• Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

  Seth Godin

  Life, Motivational, Work

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• I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores.

  Frans de Waal

  Dog, Animal, Empathy

  "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist" by Natalie Angier, partners.nytimes.com. January 14, 2001.

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• Everyone aimed at security: no one accepted responsibility. What was plainly lacking, long before the barbarian invasions had done their work, long before economic dislocations became serious, was inner go. Rome’s life was now an imitation of life: a mere holding on. Security was the watchword – as if life knew any other stability than through constant change, or any form of security except through a constant willingness to take risks

  Lewis Mumford

  Responsibility, Rome, Long

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• If we have a heart to learn and a willingness to follow the example of children, their divine attributes can hold a key to unlocking our own spiritual growth.

  Jean A. Stevens

  Spiritual, Children, Heart

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• A willingness to vocalize feelings. How important it is to be willing to voice one's thoughts and feelings. Yes, how important it is to be able to converse on the level of each family member. Too often we are inclined to let family members assume how we feel toward them. Often wrong conclusions are reached. Very often we could have performed better had we known how family members felt about us and what they expected.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Voice, Feelings

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• A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Communication, Practice, Listening

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• Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Objectivity, Tests, Failing

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• If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

  Scott Adams

  Success, Risk, Quality

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• The greatest encouragement throughout the Bible is God's love for His lost race and the willingness of Christ, the eternal Son, to show forth that love in God's plan of redemption. The love of Jesus is so inclusive that it knows no boundaries. At the point where we stop caring and loving, Jesus is still there loving and caring

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Love, Encouragement, Jesus

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• Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.179, Yale University Press

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• The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Levels, Satisfaction, Patient

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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