Unwilling Quotes - Page 9

• Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspirational, Fear, Real

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don't qualify for social security, they don't qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don't qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They're hard workers, they're good workers, and they are clearly better off.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

  Napoleon Hill

  Sacrifice, Men, Achieve

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.313, Penguin

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• The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.41

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• We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Heart, Answers, Praying

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• The blame for [the national debt]
  lies with the Congress and the President,
  with Democrats and Republicans alike,
  most all of whom have been unwilling
  to make the hard choices or
  to explain to the American people that
  there is no such thing as a free lunch.

  Warren Rudman

  Lying, Government, Lunch

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• Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Good Night, Children, Tired

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• If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

  Felix Dennis

  Sometimes, Failing, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.30, Penguin

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• I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready...

  Oswald J. Smith

  Prayer, Men, Giving

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• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Blow, Thinking, Government

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

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• I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

  Albert J. Nock

  People, Half, Way

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• Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Flower, Larks

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.356

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

  Matthew Simpson

  Consciousness, Human Nature, Adam

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Opposites, Risk

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• A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.

  Lionel Fanthorpe

  Eye, Expression, Zombie

  John E. Muller, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe (2014). “Dark Continuum”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• It is a common failing-and one that I have myself suffered from-to fall in love with a hypothesis and to be unwilling to take no for an answer. A love affair with a pet hypothesis can waste years of precious time. There is very often no finally decisive yes, though quite often there can be a decisive no.

  Peter Medawar

  Falling In Love, Science, Years

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Mean, Men

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• It’s all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system

  Ed Seykota

  Jumping, Temptation, Feelings

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• The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Patterns, Particular

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.56, Penguin

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• If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Future, Love You

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.76, Vintage

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• We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity.

  Henry Scougal

  Letting Go, Children, Hate

  Henry Scougal (1775). “The life of God in the soul of man. Or, The nature and excellency of the Christian religion. And An account of the beginnings and advances of a spiritual life. 2 letters [by H. Scougal. With a preface by G. Burnet].”, p.66

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• If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Letting Go, Mean, Maturity

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• I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

  W. H. Auden

  Discovery, Meaning Of Life, Recognition

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