Willingness Quotes - page 3

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. (Barbara Jordan)
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. View quote
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. View quote
Bennie Thompson
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. View quote
George Wald
But, as you have intimated, I am among those who would be very wary of any military action in the light of Saddam Hussein's willingness to allow the weapons inspectors to go in. View quote
George Carey
The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. View quote
Jeff Miller
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. View quote
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, commitment to their families and neighbors, their willingness to sacrifice so that their children can have a chance to forge their own path. (Kay Hagan)
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. View quote
Margaret Cousins
I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic. View quote
Mary Frann
I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs. View quote
Michael Newdow
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. View quote
Sharon Salzberg
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. View quote
Stanley Crouch
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live. View quote
Theaster Gates
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children. View quote
William Bennett
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. (Charlie Sheen)
Everyone knows how compromised the idea of bureaucracy as a meritocratic system is. The first criterion of loyalty to any organization is therefore complicity. Career advancement is not based on merit but on a willingness to play along with the fiction that career advancement is based on merit, or with the fiction that rules and regulations apply to everyone equally, when in fact they are often deployed as an instrument of arbitrary personal power. ... As whole societies have come to represent themselves as giant credentialized meritocracies, rather than as systems of predatory extraction, we bustle about, trying to curry favor by pretending we actually believe it to be true. View quote
David Graeber
Your favour of July 31, was duly received, and was read with peculiar pleasure. The sentiments breathed through the whole do honor to both the head and heart of the writer. Mine on the subject of slavery of negroes have long since been in possession of the public, and time has only served to give them stronger root. The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain, and should have produced not a single effort, nay I fear not much serious willingness to relieve them & ourselves from our present condition of moral & political reprobation. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. View quote
Howard Zinn
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain. View quote
William James