Willingness Quotes
Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.
If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.
If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.
In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
Perseverance isn't just the willingness to work hard. It's that plus the willingness to be stubborn about your own belief in yourself.
We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
Delegation requires the willingness to pay for short term failures in order to gain long term competency.
That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.
Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream.
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.
Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.
The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.
Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world.
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.
The willingness of God to sacrifice his Son to reconcile us to himself is a demonstration of his love for us.
Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.
The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.
There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.
Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.
Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.
