| "The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom." »Pesach Seder |
| "Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary." »Frederick Sherwood Dunn |
| "There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening." »Marshall McLuhan |
| "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." »Bertrand Russell |
| "For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again." »Sharon Salzberg |
| "Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility." »Barbara Mikkelson |
| "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs." »Joan Didion |
| "It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God." »Albert Coombs Barnes |
| "A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting." »Rahul Katragadda |
| "Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others." »Peter Farquharson |
| "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." »Vaclav Havel |
| "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." »Joseph Addison |
| "What makes a good follower The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination." »Warren Bennis |
| "Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." »John W. Hanley |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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