Willing Heart Quotes

• Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Hope, Heart

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.461

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• A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

  Joanna Baillie

  Heart, High Heels, Add

  Joanna Baillie (1800). “A series of plays, in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind [by J. Baillie”, p.355

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• God is looking for willing hearts... God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.

  Winkie Pratney

  Heart, Special, Willing

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• The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Opportunity, Charity

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

  David Jeremiah

  Life, Heart, Calling

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.

  Thomas Heywood

  Heart, Impossible, Willing

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• Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, World, Impossible

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  If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

  Nick Vujicic

  Heart, Men, Hands

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jul 11, 2016

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• It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.

  Francis Chan

  Children, Heart, Decision

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• Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
  a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.

  Mac Anderson

  Leadership, Attitude, Heart

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• Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

  John Baillie

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• Words uttered under coercion are proof of loyalty to nothing but self-interest. Love of country must spring from willing hearts and free minds.

  Hugo Black

  Loyalty, Country, Spring

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• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  John Milton

  Heart, Winning, Firsts

  John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'D. A Poem, In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes, And Poems upon Several Occasions: 3”, p.154

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