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WILLING
Cautious,
careful people, always casting about to preserve their
reputation and social standing, never can bring about
a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing
to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation,
and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow
their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and
their advocates, and bear the consequences.
-- Susan
B. Anthony
*
So
long as we have enough people in this country willing
to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
-- Roger
Nash Baldwin
*Man
has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He
has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous,
less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he
knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being.
He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood
by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow
nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and
lust for power.
-- Ralph
J. Bunche
"The
man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing
to do and dare."
-- Dale Carnegie
What
is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling
of the urge to do something positive with the willingness
to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions
lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger …
-- Harry
Chapin
*
"Non-violence
is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for
the timid or weak … Non-violence is hard work. It
is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience
to win."
-- Cesar
Chavez
"...as
long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves
on the market to those who are willing to hire them,
as long as their role in production is simply that
of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements
of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy
very limited, if even meaningful."
-- Noam
Chomsky
The
universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving
and receiving are different aspects of the flow of
energy in the universe, and in our willingness to
give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of
the universe circulating in our lives.
-- Deepak
Chopra
The
universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving
and receiving are different aspects of the flow of
energy in the universe, and in our willingness to
give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of
the universe circulating in our lives.
-- Deepak
Chopra
Appreciation
can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to
put it into words is all that is necessary.
-- Margaret Cousins
it
is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey,
to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because
the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the
world, demands eternal vigilance. And democracy is no
easy path, but those of us who believe in it must be
prepared to sacrifice in its cause more willingly than
those who are prepared to die in the wars of aggression.
We, too, must be dedicated to the cause of freedom.
-- Ossie
Davis
We
must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front
to show this administration that the true majority
of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment
and won't back down.
~ Leonardo
DiCaprio
"Nothing
can withstand the power of the human will
if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent
of its purpose."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
The
freedom to be at peace in our own skins - that’s what
forgiveness allows. We relinquish this freedom when
we hold onto anger and resentment. Enormous amounts
of energy are wasted when we hold back our love, hold
onto hate, and harbor acrimonious feelings. The only
remedy is letting go, and being willing to forgive.
-- Naomi
Drew
"What
you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly
simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another
matter."
-- Peter
F. Drucker
Dialogue
is a non-confrontational communication, where both
partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore
leads much farther into finding new grounds together
-- Scilla
Elworthy
The
glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor
the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is
the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing
to trust him with his friendship.
-- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is
willing to be what he is. -- Desiderius
Erasmus
"The
world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the
rest willing to let them."
-- Robert Frost
"Nothing
is easy to the unwilling."
-- Thomas Fuller
Be tough
in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean,
and at peace with what is around it.
-- Natalie Goldberg
*
"The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious
is the threat to the global environment. Those who
have a vested interest in the status quo will probably
continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change
until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out."
~ Al
Gore
*
"The
essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the
willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics,
and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally.
Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
-- Thich
Nhat Hanh
*
Genuine
politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the
only politics I am willing to devote myself to --
is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving
the community and serving those who will come after
us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility
expressed through action, to and for the whole. --
Vaclav
Havel
*
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
"Without
mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding;
without understanding, there can be no trust and respect;
without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger
of conflict. This means we have to be willing and
able to familiarize ourselves with the way people
of other cultures think and perceive the world around
them, but without losing our own standpoint in the
process."
-- Roman Herzog, President of Germany
"Through
our willingness to help others we can learn to be
happy rather than depressed."
-- Gerald Jampolsky
We,
as human beings, must be willing to accept people
who are different from ourselves.
-- Barbara
Jordan
*
One
who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him
is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of
imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of
the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing
the highest respect for law. --
Martin
Luther King, Jr
"In
the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to
risk giving."
-- Sheldon Kopp
*
"Of
course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty,
to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the
key. It’s easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and
pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Not many of us are willing to give up everything we
have. We can however give some, and millions of people
do, governments do, but there is so much more to be
done."
-- Sir
Roger Moore
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing
to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
-- Barack
Obama
One
of the most important phases of maturing is that of
growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship
to others. A person is not mature until he has both
an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among
others and to do unto those others as he would have
them do to him.
-- Harry A. Overstreet
"If
nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical
insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert
judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money,
I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety
of my family."
-- Donna
Reed
It
is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling
to do yourself.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
"The
first requisite of a good citizen in this republic
of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull
his own weight."
-- Theodore
Roosevelt
Willingness
is essential in any initiation or in making any dream come
true.
"I can't" often means "I won't." You can change "I won't"
to "I will" with will power."
-- Marcia Wieder
The
first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
-- Marianne
Williamson
*
“Entrepreneurs
are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their
money or reputations on the line in support of an
idea or enterprise.”
-- Victoria
Woodhull
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