Quotes About Willingness

Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.

Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free. Are you willing? Or do yo just want to wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?

The degree to which you are willing to be hurt, not wanting to be hurt but willing to be hurt, is the degree to which you are willing to love, be loved, and be taught by love.

Would I rather live a life of comfort and remain immature in Christ, or am I willing to be seasoned with suffering if by doing so I am conformed to the image of Christ?

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

I could hardly wait to tell Corrie what God had done with the thimbleful of willingness we had offered Him.

Whenever, wherever, however You want me, I'll go. And I'll begin this very minute. Lord, as I stand up from this place, and as I take my first step forward, will You consider this is a step toward complete obedience to You? I'll call it the step of yes.

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

On the other hand, these events show real science in action, warts and all. If no one is allowed to get things wrong, no progress will ever be made. It also illustrates scientists' willingness to change their minds when new evidence comes along or old evidence is shown to be misleading.

I think as a young person, you're kind of game for whatever sometimes.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Tell me what you want, sweetheart … Anything. And I'll do it.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

Patience, the full weight of regard, the willingness to listen and the readiness to teach – were these not the responsibilities of parenthood?

I'm a symbol," Tayven said. "You won't understand or accept this, I know, but if I am sacrificed, power will come from the act. Almorante himself would kill me if the moment was right, and I would sacrifice myself willingly, if it would do any good.

Strangely enough, I saw our roles the other way around las time. I was the great magician and you were the poetic bard. But Taropat has changed that. I accept it willingly.

The sacrifices made by veterans and their willingness to fight in defense of our nation merit our deep respect and praise - and to the best in benefits and medical care.

I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?

it is not that "we" are broke or that we lack options. It is that our political class is utterly unwilling to go where the money is (unless it's for a campaign contribution), and the corporate class is dead set against paying its fair share.

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.