Unwillingness To Accept Quotes

#1. One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

Spencer W. Kimball

#2. Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

Jim Elliot

#3. An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

Andy Stanley

#4. Control doesn't validate love; it validates the nonexistence of trust and the painful unwillingness to accept the truth.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. I didn't know it then, but my persistence, perseverance, and unwillingness to accept defeat when things looked all but hopeless were part of the very character traits I would need to make it through World War II alive.

Louis Zamperini

#6. The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.

Lance Armstrong

#7. I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

Ashley Tisdale

#8. Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

Harold Laski

#9. It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#10. A proof becomes a proof after the social act of accepting it as a proof. This is true of mathematics as it is of physics, linguistics, and biology.

Yuri Manin

#11. My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

Maureen O'Hara

#12. One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

Jimmy Carter

#13. Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.

Rita Rudner

#14. I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

Dwight Howard

#15. Allow your heart to be so wrapped up in God that a guy has to ask for directions to get to it.

Chad Eastham

#16. The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

E. O. Wilson

#17. The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.

William Hazlitt