The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

You have to be willing to fail, and you have to be willing to start over.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, – these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, – these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

I have always been someone who takes things as they comes.

Each time I go back to bat, I will want to get more and more runs.

In order to be truly creative, you have to be willing to take risks and step out of your comfort zone.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their willingness to doubt.

You have to be ready to receive help, whether that be through a book, a therapist or counselor, or a doctor of some kind. That willingness can lead you through a door to the other side, and that’s where healing can truly begin.

Now is the perfect time to make powerful change-your willingness is at an all-time high.

Thank you, Universe, for guiding me on this path to becoming new. I honor this vision of how I want to feel. I am willing to receive guidance now.

The journey toward true inner peace begins with the willingness to hold a vision for a new way of living.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed.

The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

You got mud on your face, you big disgrace

Kicking your can all over the place, singin’

We will, we will rock you

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it

What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart

This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.

Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting

My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose it’s jplace

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

A death wish is not the same as a willingness to die.

You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.

Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Never explain? Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

I get lost under these lights I get lost in the words I say Start believing my own lies Like everything will be okay

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

I’ve always had a sense of responsibility, whether I’ve been captain or not. But I must say that I’m both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that’s score goals and help my team win.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

You sleep on a win and you’ll wake up with a loss.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either — or both — when needed?

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

Systematic change requires a willingness to look on change as an opportunity.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the will of man.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

God keeps a file for our prayers. They are not blown away by the wind, they are treasured in the King’s archives.

The more physical the activity, the less the difficulties will be. The more the activity becomes intellectual and turns into motives which exercise a determining influence on the commander’s will, the more the difficulties will increase.

Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own.

The wrong we have done, thought, or intended will wreak its vengeance on our souls

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

I receive reproof when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I have committed it.

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be

The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave

I’ll be back!

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don’t. It’s really very, very simple, but you’ve got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people – or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Willingness to be puzzled by what seem to be obvious truths is the first step towards gaining understanding of how the world works.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at

I’ll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one

I know I’m far from being what I should; will I ever be?

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens

There is nothing impossible to him who will try

Please all, and you will please none

To join the top 1% you have to do what the 99% won’t.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.