Unwilling Quotes

• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Learning, Ignorance

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

  James Allen

  Change, Ignorance, Men

  James Allen (2016). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Truth, Mind, Penetrate

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• Being #‎ IGNORANT is not so much a SHAME, as being UNWILLING to LEARN to do things THE #‎ RIGHT WAY.

  Shiv Khera

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Way

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Jan 26, 2015

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• Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Fate, Destiny

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• You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

  Mike Murdock

  Motivational, Positive, Encouragement

  Mike Murdock (1994). “One-Minute Pocket Bible for Men”, p.37, David C Cook

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• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Rights, Government

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• The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.

  Michael Lind

  Pain, Believe, Sight

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• The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Prayer, Recovery, Angel

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• One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

  Pierre Corneille

  Disease, Patient, Remedy

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• Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.

  William Carlos Williams

  Mind, Bed, Made

  'Paterson' (1946) bk. 1, preface

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• A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.

  Brian Crozier

  Suicide, Faces, Doe

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• Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hate, Men, Benefits

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• There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

  Kurt Hahn

  Life, Education, Learning

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Knowing, Want

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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• Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

  Joshua Roman

  Hands, Study, Folding

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• Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?

  Nick Gordon

  Sweet, Nature, Travel

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• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

  Dorothy Parker

  Flower, Years, Rose

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

  Jimmy Savile

  Men, Dangerous

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• Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Doe

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.78

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