Willingness Quotes - Page 22

• Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Pain, Mean

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.59, Random House

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• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

  Walt Whitman

  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• Your love for what you do and willingness to push yourself where others aren't prepared to go is what will make you great.

  Laurence Shahlaei

  Workout, Bad Ass, Push Yourself

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.

  William A. Connelly

  Mean, Army, Knowing

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Couple, Flower, Love You

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

  Booker T. Washington

  Famous Inspirational, Race, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.158, University of Illinois Press

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• My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

  Shakti Gawain

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Loving Life

  Shakti Gawain (2008). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

  John Stott

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  John Stott (2013). “Balanced Christianity”, p.68, InterVarsity Press

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• These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

  Cesar Chavez

  Leadership, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness to sacrifice. We can win and keep our own self-respect and build a great union that will secure the spirit of all people if we do it through a re-dedication and re-commitment to the struggle for justice through non-violence.

  Cesar Chavez

  Struggle, Commitment, Hard Work

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• I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lies in the willingness for people to work hard.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Lying, Silly

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• During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Change, Essence

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• His great act of condescension in becoming man and His willingness to be completely humiliated in the death on the cross is set before us here as the supreme example of what our attitude should be. If Jesus Christ the Lord of glory was willing to be obedient unto death, how much more should sinners saved by grace who owe everything to God give back to the God who saved them the life which He has redeemed.

  John F Walvoord

  Jesus, Attitude, Men

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• The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Struggle, Essence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1993). “Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change”, p.39, Parallax Press

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Volunteer, Community

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• The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Christian, Prayer, Meditation

  Fulton J. Sheen (2010). “The World's First Love”, p.211, Ignatius Press

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• Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

  Philip Warren Anderson

  Nature, Attitude, Science

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• I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Sleep, Men, Wish

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• What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

  Ewan McGregor

  Drinking, What Matters, Smoking

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• War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Numbers, People

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.235, Haymarket Books

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• Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Strong, Healing, Mean

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• Some people think they are in community, but they are only in proximity. True community requires commitment and openness. It is a willingness to extend yourself to encounter and know the other.

  David Spangler

  Commitment, Thinking, People

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