Willing Quotes - page 2

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing. View quote
Alva Myrdal
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. View quote
William James
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. View quote
Pope Paul VI
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. View quote
Lionel Trilling
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. View quote
Samuel Johnson
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. View quote
Henry Miller
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. View quote
E. M. Forster
You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live. View quote
Chester Bennington
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. (Charles de Gaulle)
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. View quote
William Cobbett
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Other heights in other lives, God willing. View quote
Robert Browning
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
And a third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change. View quote
Nhat Hanh
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. View quote
Patrick Henry
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources. View quote
Bob Woodward
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. (Howard Dean)
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. View quote
David Hume
It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave. View quote
Nicole Kidman
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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