Willingness Quotes - Page 28

• One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Law, Unjust

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength, leading in a more life-positive direction.

  John Welwood

  Love, Years, Scary

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• Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

  Jack Hyles

  Risk

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• More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

  Ray Dalio

  People, Looks, Investing

  Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

  Mark Nepo

  Changed

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• People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, People, Giving

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Hope: A Novel”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

  Glen Duncan

  Hate, Love You, Secret

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• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  Ralph Marston

  Doe, Want, Matter

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• Sacrifice: Giving up something good for something better. As I have studied great men and women from the beginning of time, the common denominator of greatness has been the ability and willingness to sacrifice for whatever they were trying to achieve. When sacrifice has been there, great humans have emerged. Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

  Mas Oyama

  Risk, Victory, Coward

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• Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

  Atul Gawande

  Trying, Doe, Genius

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.246, Profile Books

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• Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

  Ricky Williams

  Greatness, Intensity, Midst

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• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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• Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

  Jim George

  Important, Service To God, Serving God

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• A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Challenges, Conventions, Radical

  Malcolm Gladwell (2013). “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Running, Self, Faces

  Geneen Roth (1992). “When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy”, p.23, Penguin

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• Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.

  Peter Block

  Believe, Mean, Self

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• If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

  Erich Fromm

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

  Alex Ebert

  Expression, Editors, Way

  "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

  Margaret Atwood

  Belief

  Margaret Atwood (2013). “MaddAddam: Book 3 of The MaddAddam Trilogy”, p.228, Anchor

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• Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.

  Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison

  Business, Hard Times, Goal

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• How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.

  Arianna Huffington

  Determination, Fighting, Ideas

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• Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Moving, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  Sam Harris

  World, Way, Facts

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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