Top 100 Unwilling Quotes
#1. The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.
Michel De Montaigne
#2. The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ...
H.L. Mencken
#3. All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause for concern. I worry them, but they haven't given up on me yet and I love them all the more for it.
Gillibran Brown
#4. Aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.
Ronald Reagan
#5. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.
Mark W. Boyer
#6. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#7. I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
Jeaniene Frost
#8. Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
Gayle Forman
#9. I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
Emily Giffin
#10. After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.
Coco Chanel
#11. I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
David Brooks
#12. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage.
The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.
Arthur Ransome
#13. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
St. Jerome
#14. I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news
Sophocles
#15. When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.
Michael Bloomberg
#16. Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them.
Blaise Pascal
#17. Even Elizabeth began to fear - not that Bingley was indifferent - but that his sisters would be successful in keeping him away. Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive
Jane Austen
#18. When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Pierre Corneille
#19. The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.
Terry Goodkind
#20. Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
Jimmy Savile
#21. But it's there in his face, a fleeting reluctance that matches her own. They stand there together for a long time, for too long, for what seems like forever, each unwilling to part ways, letting the people behind them stream past like a river around rocks. Page: 91
Jennifer E. Smith
#22. A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.
Brian Crozier
#23. Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
Marcus Aurelius
#24. sometimes we have to face the unwilling part of our live. i'm failed to facing the unbreakable fact that i falling in love with the one who just passed my life...
Li Huang
#25. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such ages back that we are often unwilling to recognise the gulf that separates them from us.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
H.L. Mencken
#28. His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table - nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married
Jane Austen
#29. Love is not at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has died.
Tang Xianzu
#30. They want rational reasons and are unwilling to cross into the territory of insanity, which is where all the real answers lie.
Jacques Antoine
#31. The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
Phil Ochs
#32. I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
Rene Descartes
#33. We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.
Barack Obama
#34. Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.
Erika Johansen
#35. Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
Osbert Lancaster
#36. I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.
Lord Byron
#37. When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.
Jeanne M. Brett
#38. My spirit is too weak
mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
John Keats
#39. That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose.
Michael R. Fletcher
#40. She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.
Jodi Picoult
#41. All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?'
'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
John Flanagan
#42. It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
Plautus
#43. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#44. Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top, easier to flatten the spring into a coil.
Anthony Burgess
#45. But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
George Whitefield
#46. Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties
George Washington
#47. It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
Charles Dickens
#48. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.
Elizabeth Warren
#49. How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?
Charlie Courtland
#50. Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one
Harold Lewis
#51. Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.
Yukio Mishima
#52. It's all about sticking to your plan and experiencing feelings as they arise. If you are unwilling to feel your feelings, the temptation is to avoid them by jumping off your system
Ed Seykota
#53. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
#54. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#55. Tricks ripped and you tripped, tricked yourself by falling slowly.
I'm the winner in this game,
unable to stoop to your level of shame.
Unwilling to reply to your words of ache.
Coco J. Ginger
#56. A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
Keith Olbermann
#57. I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper
#58. You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.
Markus Wolf
#60. Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?
Debbie Ford
#61. Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#62. God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.
Thomas Goodwin
#63. What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.
John Mole
#64. We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful
Cathy Cash Spellman
#65. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
Alice Waters
#66. Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.
Lloyd D. Newell
#67. Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.
Bill Courtney
#68. Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
Matthew Simpson
#69. Aye, he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.
Poppet
#70. Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
Emile M. Cioran
#71. The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac
#72. On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.
Lauren DeStefano
#74. There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.
Kurt Hahn
#75. Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.
Joshua Roman
#76. Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
Thomas Aquinas
#77. Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn't taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known. She wasn't like any other woman and never would be. And he would never be satisfied with another woman now that he'd touched her.
Sebastian
Ally Broadfield
#78. For Fate/ The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.
Seneca.
#79. Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield
#80. [I]f you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go. We are talking about the body of the beloved, not real estate.
Terry Tempest Williams
#81. Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.
Byron White
#82. They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion.
J.B. Phillips
#83. Jobs are for kids learning and for adults unwilling to follow their dreams.
Ben Tolosa
#84. Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.
Laozi
#85. There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...
Ouida
#86. The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century ... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.
John F. Kennedy
#88. When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
Adam Mansbach
#89. One thing I've discovered is that if you remain in contact with people, if you build longitudinal relationships, if you invest in sources who seem at first like they're uncomfortable or unwilling to talk, if you keep in touch with them, a year later that might yield something much more powerful.
Sarah Stillman
#90. We are turning into a nation of rigid, mindless, rule-driven bureaucrats, incapable or unwilling to exercise any degree of common sense or compassion.
Joseph Befumo
#91. When the media is strategically controlled by politics, finding the truth requires active searching, and many people are simply unwilling to put forth the effort to seek it out. So
Dan Wos
#92. Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley
#93. You okay? This okay?"
I nod, pulling his hips more tightly to my own.
"Now we'll make it better," Jase vows, and begins to kiss me again as he starts to move in a rhythm. My body follows, unwilling to let him go, already glad to have him come back.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#94. Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.
Khaled Hosseini
#95. If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.
Marcus Aurelius
#96. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary
Richard Harkness
#97. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.
Leif Enger
#98. You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.
Ally Condie
#99. There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
Sherman Alexie
#100. Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Lord Chesterfield
