Willingness Quotes - Page 20

• We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like someone falling off a boat, struggling to stay above the water only makes things worse. We must accept we are there and settle enough so we can be carried by the deep. The willingness to do this is the genesis of faith, the giving over to currents larger than us. Even fallen leaves float in lakes, demonstrating how surrender can hold us up.

  Mark Nepo

  Hurt, Pain, Struggle

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.87, Conari Press

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• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

  Weston La Barre

  Men, Stories, Quests

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• Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for Him. Living in this manner allows you to practice biblical love for others in spite of adverse circumstances or your feelings to the contrary.

  John C. Broger

  Jesus, Love You, Biblical

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• Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.

  Richard Farson

  Educational, School, Play

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Disappointment, Stress, Long

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• Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.

  Lee Roberson

  Helping Others, People, Willingness To Help

  Lee Roberson (2000). “The Faith That Moves Mountains”, p.40, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

  Richard J. Maybury

  Country, Mean, Fighting

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• Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

  Carter Heyward

  Healing, Love Life, Love Is

  "Our Passion for Justice". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

  Sue Kelly

  Veterans Day, Sacrifice, Fighting

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• The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

  Gene Sharp

  Determination, Reflection, Government

  Gene Sharp (2011). “From Dictatorship to Democracy”, p.26, Profile Books

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• President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the gift to love, and eagerness, yes, longing to express it in soul development, make motherhood the noblest office or calling in the world. . .' (Gospel Ideals, Salt Lake City: Improvement Era, 1953, pp. 453-54).

  H. Burke Peterson

  Mother, Children, Lakes

  H. Burke Peterson (1986). “A glimpse of glory”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

  John H. Groberg

  Space, Immensity, Needed

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• What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that mean most to them. Perhaps what most typifies the Afropolitan consciousness is the refusal to oversimplify; the effort to understand what is ailing in Africa alongside the desire to honour what is wonderful, unique. Rather than essentialising the geographical entity, we seek to comprehend the cultural complexity; to honour the intellectual and spiritual legacy; and to sustain our parents’ cultures.

  Taiye Selasi

  Spiritual, Mean, Unique

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• After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Mean, People, Freedom Of Speech

  "Freedom of Speech" by Zechariah Chafee, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, (p. 366), 1920.

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• My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.

  Travis Pastrana

  Thinking, Stupidity, Trying

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• True courage is the willingness to fully experience whatever you are feeling at the moment. You can attempt to run from your emotions, but eventually they will catch up with you. They will chase you, haunt you, until finally you give up the chase.

  Brandon Bays

  Running, Giving Up, Feelings

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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free.” Are you willing? Or do you just want towait until the world  finally gets it and does it your way?

  Gangaji

  Running, Hurt, Doe

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• The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.

  Eugene Odum

  Fate, Quality, Benefits

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don’t matter.

  Peter Thiel

  Hero, Mean, Fighting

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.36, Crown Business

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• You need the willingness to fail all the time.
  You have to generate many ideas and then you have to
  work very hard only to discover that they don’t work.
  And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.

  John Backus

  Ideas, Doe, Needs

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• Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

  Eric Liddell

  Spiritual, Secret, Obedience

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• Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

  Susan Piver

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Buddhist

  "What is True Confidence?" by Susan Piver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

  Rowan Williams

  Christian, Letting Go, Struggle

  Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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