Willing Quotes

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

The kinds of good friends I have are people who are perfectly willing to have me say I'll see them in six months, and live right next door.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.

If you are willing to walk the path of a dreamer, then anything is possibly.

Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

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.

An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

Certainly I'm always willing to talk to anyone who's interested in talking to me!

People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're willing to pointing at.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

We've got to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general election.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?

God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. It's all about love!

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

Saddam Hussein is not the only deranged dictator who is willing to deprive his people in order to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

Why there aren't people out there willing to have fun playing rock 'n' roll. I just don't get it.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

People are willing to trade money for something that they can touch, not ones and zereos.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.