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Quotes About Willing

The time has to be right and the heart willing.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.
~ Ellen Gallagher
I like a lot of Ralph Lauren and classic styles... My style has changed in that I'm willing to try more things.
~ Troian Bellisario
You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.
~ Amiri Baraka
Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking—conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger.
~ Peter Kreeft
The other side's got an energy that our side en't got. Comes from their certainty about being right. If you got that certainty, you'll be willing to do anything to bring about the end you want. It's the oldest human problem, Lyra, an' it's the difference between good and evil. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it'd have to become evil to do 'em.
~ Philip Pullman
But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine?
~ David Henry Hwang
There's no such thing as ready,' she says. 'There's only willing.
~ David Levithan
When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what is going on in this world. If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
~ David Mamet
I am willing to go abroad if the right opportunity comes up.
~ Jack Wilshere
The people of Alabama desire leadership that is willing to get things done.
~ Kay Ivey
The NCAA is acting like they can or are willing to self-police. It doesn't appear that they are willing to do it to the degree that they should.
~ Tony Cardenas
My father used to say that one of the great offences of sham politeness was the neglect of promises. When anything is demanded of you that you cannot do, refuse positively and leave no loopholes for false hopes; on the other hand, grant at once whatever you are willing to bestow.
~ Honore de Balzac
It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound
~ Howard Schultz
He has sometimes said that he could be willing to walk twelve miles on his feet, on condition he might have an opportunity to preach a sermon: and he seldom did preach a sermon without tears.
~ Cotton Mather
As Boehme puts it: "When you remain silent from the thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed in you. . . . Your own hearing, willing and seeing hinder you so that you do not see and hear God.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault
The third type of book owner has scribbled in the margins, marked on the front and back covers, turned many a dog-eared page and a few of the books in the collection might even be considered downright worn out. This is the person who owns books. This is the person who is willing to fall in love.
~ Unknown
We feel completely stuck, trapped in our emotional cells, but there's a way out—as long as we're willing to see it.
~ Lori Gottlieb
I've been scared plenty of times. What I've never been is fearless. If you can run into a battle unafraid, you're not courageous, you're just a dumbass. It's knowing the price you're going to pay and being willing to pay it anyway that makes you brave.
~ Jill Shalvis
Okay, time to play doctor." Her entire body quivered, sending "yes please" vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. "Sure, if I can be the doctor." His mouth curved. "I'm willing to take turns, but me first.
~ Jill Shalvis
Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Edward, it will take time to find a willing and acceptable match, won't it? Decent men do not hang about at crossroads just waiting for ruined women to take them home.
~ Unknown
We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.
~ Unknown
That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this...why? Because you're fond of helping others?" "I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.
~ Vivian Vande Velde