Willingness Quotes - Page 5

• Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

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• You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mother, Kids, Quality

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 06, 2014

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

  Unknown

  Defense, Vigilance, Price Of Freedom

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• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Common, Share

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Strong, Mean, Tools

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• The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

  Bill Crawford

  Belief, Validity, Values

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• The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Belief, Mark

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• Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

  Stephen King

  Men, Two, Way

  Stephen King (2006). “Cell: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

  Charlotte Selver

  Acceptance, Two, Needs

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• The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Shining, World

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• I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Courage, War, Preparation

  First public statement upon arriving in Australia, March 1942.

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• Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

  Richard L. Evans

  Honesty, Real, Sacrifice

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

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• When I decide who to vote for as President, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Strong, Believe, Israel

  "No 'Buyer’s Remorse' for Voting for Obama" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• You have to be willing to stop and fix. Deep practice requires a willingness to do what many of us find uncomfortable: to admit to our errors, and focus on them.

  Daniel Coyle

  Focus, Uncomfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

  Ian Caldwell

  Wall, Saws, Standing

  Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com

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• The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Spiritual, Humility, Apology

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• You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

  Farrah Gray

  Business, Hard Work, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Jul 24, 2011

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Volunteer, Community

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• The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doors, Understanding, Identity

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• What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Truth, Leader, Important

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.392, John Wiley & Sons

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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