Quotes with willingness

  • The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
  • I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

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  • Barry J. Farber Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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  • Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Source: Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Pat Caddell A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
    Pat Caddell
     
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  • Billy Sunday Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • William T. Sherman Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Alistair Cooke Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Bob Beauprez During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Parr Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Helen Gurley Brown I hope I have convinced you - the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
    Helen Gurley Brown
    American author, publisher and businesswoman (1922 - 2012)
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  • William T. Sherman I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • Brooke Shields I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carlos Santana Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Eisenstaedt Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
    Alfred Eisenstaedt
    German-born American photographer and photojournalist (1898 - 1995)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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