Top 142 Reluctance Quotes & Sayings

I think what limited my role when I was WWE commissioner in 2000 was my reluctance to get back in the ring every now and then.

The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

People - whether you like to hear what people have got to say, not you have got to listen to them, and turning your back on people I found very insulting. If you're going to really make peace, you have got to confront each other and look each other in the eye, and that's what's happen - I'm always remember Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Yasser Arafat and the reluctance in - Yasser Arafat put his hand down and the reluctance of Yitzhak Rabin, but then he had that second and then he just shook the hand.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn’t hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull.

It's not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.

For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to "commit"...

I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.

All reluctance is a lack of confidence.

For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

There is such a reluctance to address sex as an inherent part of the human experience in this country... The true perversion to me is crushing it and hiding it.

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

A powerful way to sidestep America's reluctance to become postracial would be for more black Americans to become postnational.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.

There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome in my life are not the deepest, darkest things.

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!" She hit him with a waffle iron.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.