Willing Quotes - Page 38

• What we want is men with a little courage to stand up for Christ. When Christianity wakes up, and every child that belongs to the Lord is willing to speak for Him, is willing to work for Him, and, if need be, willing to die for Him, then Christianity will advance, and we shall see the work of the Lord prosper.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Courage, Children, Men

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.9, Moody Publishers

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• There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Death, Might, Lovers

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• I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.... There is something about believing in God, that makes God willing to pass over a million people just to anoint you. I believe God will always turn out to meet you on a special line if you dare to believe Him.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Faith, Children, Believe

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• I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Forgiveness, Prayer

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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• Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Goal, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Freedom, Fighting, Men

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• And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

  John Updike

  Happiness, Children, Educational

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.55, Random House

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• The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

  Michael Faraday

  Education, Men, Judging

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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• Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

  P. L. Travers

  Life, Hero, Feet

  "The World of the Hero". Book by P. L. Travers, 1976.

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• If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

  Stephen Harper

  Nature, Animal, Wilderness

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• A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

  Carter Glass

  Wisdom, Money, Men

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• I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.

  Candace Bushnell

  Single, New York, Home

  "Singles get prime time attention" by Jill Brooke, www.cnn.com. October 10, 1995.

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• It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power -
  if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Strength, Giving, Acting

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• To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one's life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Reality, Psychics

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.143, Penguin

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• ...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Inspirational, Business, Work

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• An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Strong, Mean, Order

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• We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

  Howard Draft

  Business, Successful, Agency

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• People are more willing to buy branded goods provided they are persuaded that they are getting value from them. And they need to be convinced of those benefits, in authentic everyday language, without being confronted by corporate-speak. Get it right, and you create a virtuous circle. Get it wrong, and you get punished for it.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Circles, People

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• If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.

  Leonard Orr

  Graduation, Discipline, Needs

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• In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Art, Book

  William Graham Sumner, (2013). “Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals”, p.251, Read Books Ltd

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• One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Funny, Self, Understanding

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• Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.

  Jonathan Falwell

  Senior, Age, Hospice

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• What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Earning, Pockets, Idlers

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• If you are ever going to achieve as much as you can in a sport, you are going to have to be willing to make a leap of faith to learn how much your body can handle.

  Meredith Rainey-Valmon

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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