Willingness Quotes

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

I have numerous people who have expressed a willingness to be plaintiffs.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.