#willing

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time. ↗

— David Hartman

#commit #handling #kids #lot #more

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#forcibly #immoral #oppressive #person #rate

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far 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. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#all things #allow #contented #defence #down

Willingness to be damned for the glory of God. ↗

— Samuel Hopkins

#glory #god #willingness

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

#captivating #desires #eloquence #entirely #hearers

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ↗

— James Allen

#bound #circumstances #improve #men #remain

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay. ↗

— Clara Barton

#less #man #may #never #nothing

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#age #child #communicable #diseases #mother