Be Willing Quotes

#1. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.

Hilari Bell

#2. In order to be a success in life you have to be willing to take a chance. Its like putting a blindfold on and jumping off a cliff and hoping you'll land on something soft.

Ricky Star

#3. Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.

Oleg Cassini

#4. A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.

Charlie Munger

#5. Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Robert Greene

#6. We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

Howard Draft

#7. From a rational standpoint, it might be expected that man should be far more willing to express financial confidence in his skills rather than risking his earnings on the mindless meanderings of chance. Experience, however, has strongly indicated the reverse proposition to hold true.

Richard Arnold Epstein

#8. Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#9. Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress ... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

Walter E. Williams

#10. To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with their love for you, is one of the greatest joys in life.

Ellen J. Barrier

#11. The thing about magic is everyone wants to own some, most so badly they're willing to beg and borrow and steal it from whomever they can. But the truth is unless you own your own magic you'll be destroyed by it; whether you lend its power to others or use what isn't yours doesn't matter.

Tiffany FitzHenry

#12. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#13. Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

Spike Jonze

#14. Creativity involves missteps and imperfections. I wanted our people to get comfortable with that idea - that both the organization and its members should be willing, at times, to operate on the edge.

Ed Catmull

#15. We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

Edgar Wilson Nye

#16. Wouldn't you like to believe you're the center of someone's universe? To feel so special that the rest of the world didn't matter and it could all wait? What would you be willing to pay for that - any time you needed to feel that way?

D.A. Rhine

#17. If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

Jim Jordan

#18. The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.

John Sununu

#19. You must be willing to take off the blinders and open your eyes, to see what lie ahead of you.

Carlotta Arradondo

#20. If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.

Condoleezza Rice

#21. I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.

Twyla Tharp

#22. As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

George W. Bush

#23. Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

Sharon Jaynes

#24. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#25. It's very unique. When you have someone who's lucky to get a minute in a game come up and tell you how you can be better when he's two years older than you, it's such a selfless act. Everyone is willing to tell you how to get better.

Christopher Page

#26. Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

George B. McClellan

#27. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.

Steve Biddulph

#28. If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

Mat Hoffman

#29. I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

#30. Be not weary in well-doing. ... Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.

Thomas S. Monson

#31. It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.

Wayne Dyer

#32. If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.

Zhu Rongji

#33. Oh, sure, they'd insisted I take Washington Wife class after I'd inadvertently insulted the Prime Minster of England, but how could I have known he wasn't willing to admit that the Rolling Stones weren't half the band Aerosmith was and never would be?

Gini Koch

#34. Be who you are. But be the very best communicator you can possibly be. To do that you must be willing to sacrifice what's comfortable-what has become part of your style-for the sake of what is effective.

Andy Stanley

#35. Yes. Knock and it shall be opened to you. The gift of wisdom can be found, if one wishes to search for it, and is willing to be altered by it. It is not a gift given without cost or transformation, nor one to be used lightly.

Faith Hunter

#36. When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy.

Helen Schucman

#37. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.

Dillon Burroughs

#38. When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

Orison Swett Marden

#39. To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

David Foster Wallace

#40. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#41. Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it.

Brian Lawley

#42. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.

Milton H. Erickson

#44. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

Rose McIver

#45. I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

Patty Murray

#46. The problem with a living sacrifice is that it can crawl off the altar, so you may have to resurrender your life fifty times a day. You must make it a daily habit. Jesus said, "If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing to give

Zondervan Publishing

#47. How alive am I willing to be?

Anne Lamott

#48. I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.

Emma Watson

#49. You must love her very much to be willing to do all this." He twisted his head slightly and held her gaze. "I'm not doing anything for her that I've not done for her before.

Lorraine Heath

#50. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

Roy Bennett

#51. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others.

Sheryl Sandberg

#52. Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

Elisabeth Elliot

#53. In your journey through New England,' he wrote, 'Would you be willing to visit Northampton? You have the blessing of Heaven with you wherever you go, and I have a desire, if it be the will of God, that same blessing may come down on this town.

Johnathan Edwards

#54. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...

James Cameron

#55. God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Adoniram Judson

#56. I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Malin Akerman

#57. As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

John Barrasso

#58. There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping through the under currents of the soil, but you have to be willing to wait and receive.

John Hay

#59. Okay, time to play doctor."
Her entire body quivered, sending "yes please" vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. "Sure, if I can be the doctor."
His mouth curved. "I'm willing to take turns, but me first.

Jill Shalvis

#60. Be willing to dance the victory dance as if your greatest dreams are realized, and watch how easily things fall into place.

Colette Baron Reid

#61. I think athletically I can be okay with any role, but I'm willing to go over and beyond for my work. My fan base is so strong and loyal, and they wanna see me evolve. I'm where I'm supposed to be and I want to challenge myself with the people that are doing it real big.

Pooch Hall

#62. There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth ... just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

Yasmin Mogahed

#63. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Meister Eckhart

#64. People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.

Ann Landers

#65. I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

Harold Prince

#66. Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Andrew Cohen

#67. I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.

Louise Hay

#68. Nixon was always willing to be bipartisan, so there are a lot of surprises in the man.

Douglas Brinkley

#69. The sad fact of life was that there were no cruising spots for heterosexual men. If there were, Joshua would be parked somewhere every day of his life, willing to sleep with any woman generous enough to pull up alongside him.

Aleksandar Hemon

#70. A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

Conan O'Brien

#71. I don't mind, I'm the Cool Girl. Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they're fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl.

Gillian Flynn

#72. A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

Richard Avedon

#73. The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

H.L. Mencken

#74. I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Esther Hicks

#75. We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

Andre Gide

#76. Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

Frederick Lenz

#77. I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Albert Einstein

#78. I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dole

#79. From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this ... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.

Ali Khamenei

#80. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

Jamie Le Fay

#81. To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.

Iyanla Vanzant

#82. Jelle, if you really love Guji, you'd be willing to let him go and allow him to be happy with the woman he loves. Walang problema kung nais mong ipaglaban ang feelings mo pero dapat alam mo rin kung paano sumuko lalo na kung alam mong talo ka na.

Marione Ashley

#83. I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Skylar Astin

#84. Because revolution - armed uprising - requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die - or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.

Robert A. Heinlein

#85. That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere - being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.

Sara Raasch

#86. Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

Tia Giacalone

#87. For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Tertullian

#88. Then I began to play. Variations on a G major chord, the most wonderful chord known to mankind, infinitely happy. I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. Everything uncomplicated and good about me could be summed up by that chord.

Maggie Stiefvater

#89. You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

Chuck Schumer

#90. We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

Craig Groeschel

#91. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.

Charles Stanley

#92. For the woman you love, you should be willing to pick up and go anywhere. You aren't defined by your job, son, but by what you make of your life.'

If only any of it were that simple.

Kim Law

#93. A man must be willing to die for ...

Jesse Jackson

#94. Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.

Robert Cheeke

#95. To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind ... Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.

Bill Crawford

#96. If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight ... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.

Patricia Lovell

#97. We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from the fantasies and the mythology that we create around ourselves, or we're doomed to kind of innocently blunder into every country in the world and murder people.

Bill Ayers

#98. I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

Mike Lee

#99. It's really exhilarating and exciting to be able to meet your fan base and see them in person, and see the lengths that they're willing to go to.

Jason O'Mara

#100. A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

John Rawls