Willingness Quotes - Page 6

• The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Trust, Taken, May

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• A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.

  M. Scott Peck

  Mean, Dedication

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Jesus, Nice, Blood

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• What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.

  Anna Quindlen

  Friendship, Women, Heart

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Giving, Honest

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As your life continually poses new questions, it also poses new answers - which cause expansion. As your life presents new problems, it also presents new solutions - which cause expansion - and All-That-Is benefits from your willingness to live and consider and explore ... and expand.

  Esther Hicks

  Causes, Expansion, Answers

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• The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Letting Go, Real, Differences

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2015). “Learning to Walk in the Dark: Because God often shows up at night”, p.82, Canterbury Press

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• willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

  Anais Nin

  Prejudice, Protection, Weak

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• For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Loss, Past, Understanding

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.75, Convergent Books

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• It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.

  Margaret Laurence

  Party, Believe, Struggle

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• Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Jobs, People, Violence

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• At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

  Ron Fournier

  Eras, Wonder, Polarization

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• The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Country, Rights, People

  "Senator Feinstein Supports Stronger Military Via Bill to End 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell'" by Craig Newmark, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Lying, Sacrifice

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

  Margaret Mead

  Laughter, Spring, Pride

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• One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

  Agnes Repplier

  Envy, Purpose, Good Work

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• Risk is the willingness to fail.

  Kathleen Turner

  Risk, Failing

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• When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mean, Heart

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.206, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Since I reached the conclusion that the essence of the creative person is being in love with what one is doing, I have had a growing awareness that this characteristic makes possible all the other personality characteristics of the creative person: independence of thought and judgment, honesty, perseverance, curiosity, willingness to take risks and the like.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Perseverance, Honesty, Being In Love

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• Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Humor, Practice, Growth

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• I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

  Mike Rowe

  Fun, Dirty, Hard Work

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• Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of the great "in spite of" that says: I forget although I remember. Without this kind of forgetting no human relationship can endure healthily. I don't refer to a solemn act of asking for and offering forgiveness. Such rituals as sometimes occur between parents and children, or friends, or man and wife, are often acts of moral arrogance on the one part and enforced humiliation on the other. But I speak of the lasting willingness to accept him who has hurt us.

  Paul Tillich

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Children

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• God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Caring, Understanding

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. I thought, that's interesting, because I believe a total unwillingness to cooperate is what is necessary to be an artist — not for perverse reasons, but to protect your vision. The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. That's why I spend my time now painting.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Believe, People

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