Greatness lies not in high or outstanding ability. It lies simply in the willingness to use what we have for others. The greater the `other people` dimension, the greater our personal `greatness`. - Chairman Mao
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God. - Jim George
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness. - Martin Luther
Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. - Tony Schwartz
Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not. - Ashton Kutcher
Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the age and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri
They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. - August Wilson
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz
It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. - Mark Cuban
With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left. - Joe L. Wheeler
What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more. - Ewan McGregor
One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open. - Forrest Curran
success and failure is like two sides of coin depends on your willingness. - Wasim Malik
Success depends on a willingness to change. - Debasish Mridha
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. - Marshall McLuhan
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. - Wayne Dyer
It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if it fails, you learn from what happened and do a better job next time - Mark Cuban
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
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. - Henri J.M. Nouwen
Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experiencethat is enslaving you with its torment,there is the willingness to be free.Are you willing? Or do yo just want to wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way? - Gangaji
's characteristics & willingness to perform more than others simply makes him stand out in public and differentiate him from those who are not successful - Chris Salamone
It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It’s is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Patience creates a platform for deeply intimate communication. This platform tests our ability to listen, our willingness to be kind, and our strength against loss. This is the platform in which the most authentic types beauty can be exchanged. - Ilse Hildebrandt
There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again - Munia Khan
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good. - Carl Sagan
The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history. - Steven Heighton
The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. - Daisaku Ikeda
Failures or successes are not as important as the willingness to risk. - Darryl Webb
Courage is the willingness to act in spite of fear. - Michael Hyatt
Determination and willingness can change the situation when we are distructed - Kishore Bansal
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is neccessary. - Margaret Cousins
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. - Kurt Vonnegut
The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. - Gaylord Nelson
The only thing sadder than hateful people’s willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige. - Steve Maraboli
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity. - Neal A. Maxwell
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. - Sam Harris
Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry. - Noam Chomsky
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.
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. - David P. Mikkelson
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic. - Agnostic Zetetic
It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end. - Bryonie Wise
Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful. - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
Leadership or being a leader is not measured on our power, rich or poor, the and status in life. It is about the willingness to be able to help and inspire others. - Kiarra Neri
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
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs. - Joan Didion
Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do. - Winston Samuels
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently. - Thomas S. Monson
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. - Carl Sagan