People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.
When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.
To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him. . . He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.
All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.
There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.
It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.
There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.
I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.
I'm an entertainer, period. But I'd probably have to say my passion is in singing. I'm willing to go broke singing.