Quotes About Willingness

It is not self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism nor self-forgetting and intoxicating romanticism which induces us to turn with passionate interest, with unqualified willingness to learn, toward the political thought of classical antiquity. We are impelled to do so by the crisis of our time, the crisis of the West.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at least.

Yes, he thought, I am ready, I have always been ready, I am ready at last.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

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

We have clearly demonstrated our willingness to have peace on honourable terms. Lloyd George insists on capitulation. Between these two there is no mean; and it is only a waste of time continuing.30

Athletic success is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it, and the drive to continually improve at it.

When I see my identity in Christ, God's presence and provision, and what he is doing in the process, I am willing and able to do things I wouldn't do otherwise.

Whenever offers come my way, if I connect with it, then I am completely open to it.

I'm really open to everything.

I have an open mind and I'm willing to do whatever.

The greatest factor in achieving spiritual success is willingness. Jesus said, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few."12 People of the world seek the gifts of God, but he who is wise seeks the Giver Himself.

He didn't like the way the gown fastened at the back. He didn't mind displaying his wares, if he liked the other person and the time seemed right, but he did like the illusion at least that the act was voluntary.

How willing were they to share it?

I was just going to tell you that I'm really willing to change. That's one thing about me; I've always been open to change." "That," said Socrates, "is one of your biggest illusions. You've been willing to change clothes, hairstyles, women, apartments, and jobs. You are all too willing to change anything except yourself, but change you will.

When it comes to the practice of writing, it cannot be distraction that propels us but rather the patience—the openness, the willingness—to meet ourselves on the page. To stop being at the mercy of what we surround ourselves with, but rather, to discover our story.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

The willingness to abuse other bodies is the willingness to abuse one's own. To damage the earth is to damage your children. To despise the ground is to despise its fruit; to despise the fruit is to despise its eaters. The wholeness of health is broken by despite" (The Unsettling of America).

We identify arrogant ignorance by its willingness to work on too big a scale, and thus to put too much at risk.