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• The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not necessarily the biggest in size, or the wealthiest in natural resources. No, what unites them all is their willingness to believe in the magic of the marketplace.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Magic, Progress

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• The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Real, Feet, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.130, Discovery House

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• Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Hurt, Willingness To Learn

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• Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Life Changing, Moving

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin

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• I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

  Brandon Boyd

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

  Eric Clapton

  Way, Felt, Greatest Gifts

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• The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

  Brian Tracy

  Sight, Quality, Guarantees

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 23, 2012

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• No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.

  Geneen Roth

  Dream, Holiday, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Dec 10, 2012

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• Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Jesus, Want

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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  Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Courage, Men, Perfect

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• The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

  Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

  Views, Competition, Merit

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• Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

  Carlos Santana

  People, Excuse, Habit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

  Ron Paul

  Real, Government, Challenges

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Four, Repentance, Mark

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• Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Serious, Worthwhile, Periods

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• Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Powerful, Perfect, All Time

  "12 Tips for Happiness in 2012" By Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.

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• We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

  Stephen Harper

  Running, Campaigns, Fundamentals

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• Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

  Pema Chodron

  Looks, Clarity, Slow Down

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.184, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

  Richard Gere

  Emotional, Thinking, Bravery

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When I decide who to vote for as President, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Strong, Believe, Israel

  "No 'Buyer’s Remorse' for Voting for Obama" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.

  Dave Ramsey

  Order, Long, Pay

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• The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

  Peter McWilliams

  Ability

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Failure, Achievement, Risk

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• And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Character, Giving

  "We need to make America once again a beacon in the world", www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2004.

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