Willingness Quotes

• Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

  Kevin Kelly

  Important, Willingness To Learn, Critical

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• The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

  Brené Brown

  Littles, Daring Greatly, Shows

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.43, Penguin

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• The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
  willingness to learn is a choice.

  Brian Herbert

  Learning, Skills, Choices

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.532, Spectra

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  The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  Barbara Sher

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.20, Dell

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• The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.

  Joel Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017

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• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love, Anxiety, Self Improvement

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 19, 2011

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• Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Motivational, Philosophical, Art Of War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.106, FastPencil Inc

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• Being willing makes you able.

  Rhonda Britten

  Able, Willing

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.28, Penguin

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• We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

  Fred Rogers

  Thinking, Trying, World

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• The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

  Vinod Khosla

  Giving, Succeed, Failing

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Devil and Miss Prym”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

  "President Obama Quotes Carl Sagan at Rutgers: 'Embrace What is True Rather Than What Feels Good'" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 15, 2016.

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

  Ralph Marston

  Want, Matter, Complexity

  "Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent". Book by Gyan Nagpal, p. 3, December 3, 2012.

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• Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Change, Real

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• I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Thinking, Belief

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• Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

  Ovid

  Lacking, Commendable

  'Epistulae Ex Ponto' bk. 3, no. 4, l. 79

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• Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Mma, Shapes, Path

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• Willingness to learn is the mark of a youthful mind.

  Rickson Gracie

  Mind, Mark, Willingness To Learn

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• The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

  Pat Summitt

  Sports, Essentials, May

  Pat Head Summitt (1998). “Reach for the Summit: The Definite Dozen System for Succeeding at Whatever You Do”, Broadway

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  The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Life, Respect, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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• What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Happiness, Make Others Happy

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• Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Love, Inspiring, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.146, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Willpower is nothing but willingness to do.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Willpower

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.56, Rodale

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• Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Compassion, Generosity, Life And Death

  Elizabeth Lesser (1999). “The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide”, Random House Incorporated

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