Willingness Quotes - Page 5

• Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

  Billie Jean King

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

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• You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Mother, Kids, Quality

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 06, 2014

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• The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Belief, Mark

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• The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.

  Bill Crawford

  Belief, Validity, Values

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• Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

  John F. Kerry

  Strong, Mean, Tools

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• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

  Unknown

  Defense, Vigilance, Price Of Freedom

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• A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Responsibility, Common, Share

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

  Stephen King

  Men, Two, Way

  Stephen King (2006). “Cell: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

  Charlotte Selver

  Acceptance, Two, Needs

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• The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it?

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Shining, World

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• I have every confidence in the ultimate success of our joint cause; but success in modern war requires something more than courage and a willingness to die: it requires careful preparation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Courage, War, Preparation

  First public statement upon arriving in Australia, March 1942.

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• Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

  Richard L. Evans

  Honesty, Real, Sacrifice

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, Responsibility, Character

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 09, 2011

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• Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, War, Character

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• I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

  Mary Frann

  Adventure, Men, Curiosity

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• The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Journey, Boredom

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Self, Giving, Return

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.1, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Finals, Photographer, Process

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• The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isnt so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.

  Zong Qinghou

  Profit Margin, Limits, Mature

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• True honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are - beyond all ideas.

  Matthew Kahn

  Spiritual, Honesty, Ideas

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• it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Skills, Magic, Physicians

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first a marked attitude of compassion. He should commit himself firmly to the willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.

  Sun Simiao

  Attitude, Compassion, Giving

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• For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness to give their lives to others.

  Carol Gilligan

  Mother, Children, Couple

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

  Phillips Brooks

  Prayer, Men, Stronger

  "Going up to Jerusalem", Twenty Sermons (p. 330), 1886.

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