Willing Quotes

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

'Larry Crowne' is about as bummed out a human being as one can be when he loses his job. What he is able to enjoy is something that may not be available to everybody. But it's about the value of being willing to get and willing to give good advice.

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

It is a warning to all those who may think about becoming involved with a terrorist network, people who are willing to destroy their own lives are hard to deter.

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

There is a lesson there about greed and it is a lesson I am willing to learn as well. Has it made me a distrustful person? I don't think so. But we probably look a bit more carefully at our financial situation now.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.