Willing Quotes

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. (Che Guevara)
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. View quote
Jim Rohn
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. View quote
Robert Frost
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good. View quote
Ezra Pound
Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy. View quote
Nora Ephron
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. View quote
Dale Carnegie
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them. View quote
Alan Perlis
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. (Ludwig Quidde)
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. View quote
John Updike
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. View quote
Bruce Lee
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. View quote
E. M. Forster
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. View quote
Alice Walker
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less. View quote
Lily Tomlin
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. View quote
F. H. Bradley
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as farre-forth, as for Peace, and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. View quote
Denis Diderot
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. (Lorraine Hansberry)
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. View quote
Propertius