Willing Quotes

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Not that I dislike McDonalds, but things must be pretty bad in Moscow if people are willing to wait three hours for large fries.

The people blocking buses in Murrieta, California, didn't come from radical groups, they were everyday Americans who were perfectly willing to frighten those children

Do any exercise you want as long as you're willing to do it. You see gym equipment on TV advertisements all the time, but guess what? It's only good if you actually use it.

The people who had the least were the most willing to share.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away.

People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.

What you are willing to lose will be proportionate to what you are able to win.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

When leaders are willing to talk through their own decision-making process, making visible that values are an important consideration, this sends a powerful signal to employees.

I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

If you are willing to dream and then work hard and execute well, you can achieve more than you ever imagined.

The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in

I want to say that I really appreciate that readers are willing to work with my tendency to write in several different genres and for different age groups.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.

God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

You'll know if he loves you by how long he's willing to fight.

It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.

America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

If you are not willing to take the shame on yourself, you then let it remain on Jesus Christ. You must bear the reproach of your sinful state of indifference, or the cause of our Master must bear it.

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it.

If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.

If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.