Reluctant Quotes

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.

I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

It takes years for me to trust; I know that about myself. A lot of it is because I am so private, and so reluctant to make myself vulnerable.

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

Kate [DiCamillo] tends to be more reluctant about change. I convinced her to give it a try and she came over.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.

I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

I figure that my staff will be less reluctant to work overtime if I work longer hours than they do.

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.