Willing Quotes

The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.

I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Getting people to go above and beyond the call of duty can be achieved but only if you, the artist, are willing to go above and beyond any and all calls of duty yourself.

I would say anybody who's willing to listen to Dark Side of the Moon and watch The Wizard of Oz is already a very sensitive, creative person.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system at all.

In love, there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible.

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

A happy ending is always possible if you are willing to keep the story moving to get there.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?

You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

I'm not really thinking about what I'm talking about or what I'm willing to achieve. I'm just kind of letting it come out, recording it.

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Indeed we do have an entitlement problem: some feel so entitled to power & wealth that they're willing to undermine our economy and our democracy.

Everything has a price. It's just what your willing to pay for it.