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willingness Quotes

26 of the best book quotes about willingness
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“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.”
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“Early Christian...Willingly they sacrificed fame, fortune and life itself on behalf of the cause they knew to be right. Quantitatively small, they were qualitatively giants. Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests.”
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“I’m willing to tell you. I’m wanting to tell you. I’m waiting to tell you.”
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“This longing of God’s to give us peace and assurance and a sense of well-being only awaits our willingness to cooperate with God’s limitless magnanimity.”
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“The thing we all had in common wasn’t muscle; it was the will to do whatever it takes.”
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“The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story. He was shameless, campy, and instructive: if you were willing to risk humiliation, the world could be yours. Trump became the objective correlative for the rising appetite for fame and notoriety.”
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“The biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people are willing to do what unsuccessful people are not.”
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“if only we were crazy enough to be willing to ignore our mechanical and static perceptions we’d know that a half-filled coffee cup holds more secrets than, say, the Grand Canyon.”
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“Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.”
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“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
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“If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more than we all shared the dream of never dying or of traveling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare that this dream was not a feverish trick of the mind but was an actuality at least as real as that other, thinner, more unhappy illusion we call normal life.”
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“Your willingness to jump will open doors for you. Every jump will increase your wisdom and broaden your vision.”
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“To have an exceptional child you must be willing to have an exceptional child.”
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“See; you’re not going as fast as you can. You’re just going as fast as you will.”
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“Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.”
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“If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.”
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“You gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!”
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“My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.”
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“I only needed to bring my willingness to forgive, not the fullness of all my restored feelings.”
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“How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.”
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″...if they was willing and able to kill for it- well, they’ll be equal willing to pay for it!”
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″...everyone likes to reward those that are obliging.”
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‘Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is the book. Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know; unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.’
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“I promise to marry Linton: papa would like me to: and I love him. Why should you wish to force me to do what I’ll willingly do of myself?”
Source: Chapter 27, Paragraph 60
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“I’m an honest man, and I’m strong and willing—”
Source: Chapter 30, Line 4
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“Yes, he is small, but he is quick and willing, and kind-hearted, too, and then he wishes very much to come, and his father would like it; and I know the master would like to give him the chance.
Source: Chapter 17, Paragraph 11

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