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Quotes About Willing

I should think you will be willing enough to go?' 'Yes — for some things,' I replied. 'For some things only — I wonder what should make you regret it?' I was annoyed at this in some degree; because it embarrassed me: I had only one reason for regretting it; and that was a profound secret, which he had no business to trouble me about.
~ Anne Bronte
Weber's asking us to step back and say what kind of political order, and the values associated with it that it promotes, are we willing to really give a lot for, including sacrifice.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Life is very short; be willing to serve.
~ Peter Garrett
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
~ Seneca the Younger
Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.
~ Sheldon B. Kopp
Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
~ John Ruskin
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
~ John Heywood
Christianity is a matter of willing God's will and through Christ become one with it.
~ John Leax
Thy William went willing, Kit. Even though thou didst retrieve him-mad poets, the both of you-the debt is paid for seven times seven years.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
It's easy to want to change, but it's hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn't want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart
~ Geneen Roth
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
~ George Eliot
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
~ J. Paul Getty
The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.
~ Martha McSally
The United States would be a more willing container of China, but in the mid-1990s it is unclear how far it will go to contest an assertion of Chinese control over the South China Sea.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
If I wanted more commercial success, I guess I wish I would've been willing to play the game a little bit more and be a little bit more malleable in that way ... but I wasn't. I'm still not, really. It's just not who I am.
~ Sandra Bernhard
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
~ Andy Partridge
The time has to be right and the heart willing.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.
~ Steven R. McQueen
Fear', the doctor said, 'is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
it's quite a hazard, quite a hazard indeed, people knocking you down. Still, it's a genuine pleasure to find one as willing as you to make up for it. Sometimes the people who knock you down never turn once to look.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear, is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishment of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson