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Quotes About Willingly

I spent a great deal of my career willingly ignoring the fact that people are participating in it, because it allows me to function without second-guessing it, without thinking, 'Oh, I wonder what people are gonna think of this,' or, 'I wonder what people aren't gonna think of this.'
~ Devin Townsend
I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.
~ Johanna Konta
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
~ Pope Paul VI
No one, indeed, will voluntarily and willingly devote himself to the service of God unless he has previously tasted his paternal love, and been thereby allured to love and reverence Him.
~ John Calvin
What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable. Being
~ Sadhguru
What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable.
~ Sadhguru
Can you then respond to the moon? You can. Your body and life energies certainly do. When entire oceans rise in response to the cycles of the moon, do you think the water content in your own system doesn't rise as well? Maybe you aren't an astronaut; maybe you can never walk on the moon. But you can respond to the moon. In fact, you already do. You can just choose to do it—willingly, consciously.
~ Sadhguru
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
~ John Owen
have also assumed that the mark of this people is not merely that they are "chosen before the foundation of the world," but that they have willingly responded to God in a certain way. In this chapter I have focused mainly
~ John Piper
Puggles] What population signs on willingly for slavery? You mean other than wives? [Glinda]
~ Gregory Maguire
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
~ Philip Zimbardo
I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the property of a man and suffer all the humiliation of submerging her character and her very identity in his?
~ Mary Balogh
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you and pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
~ Ayn Rand
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
~ Ernest Cline
Where there is superior force, I serve under constraint; where there is power, I serve willingly.
~ Esther Vilar
This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder
~ Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
~ Julie Burchill
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
~ Isabelle Holland
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Once she tapped into that desire, the calf willingly followed.
~ Dale Carnegie
The people who benefit from the existing system won't willingly downsize government even if all the customers desert it.
~ David Boaz
That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian. Distortion. They give you a general here right? They put you under. It's not that bad. I'll go willingly.
~ David Foster Wallace
My lord, I will take my leave of you. Hamlet: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal...
~ William Shakespeare
Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, we would willingly give cure as know.
~ William Shakespeare