#willing

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#debt #increase #man #much #nobility

People have always thought that I wasn't ambitious. They judged by appearances and were fooled. I was competitive. I wanted success and was willing to work for it. ↗

— Perry Como

#ambitious #appearances #competitive #fooled #i

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#different #different aspects #feeling #only #real

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#been #blot #country #defense #fact

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#nothing #unwilling

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#characteristic #common #confront #else #essence

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#body #catholics #christ #church #communion

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#ear #evil #gives #good #goodness

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#budget #clean #come #costs #day

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in. ↗

— Diane Lane

#believe #bite #example #i #i believe