Top 415 Reluctant Quotes & Sayings

It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary. This context of struggle and being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression. Otherwise I would be a sculptor, or a gardener, carpenter - You know, I would be free to be so much more… I guess part of me or a part of who I am, a part of what I do is being a warrior - a reluctant warrior, a reluctant struggler. But I do it, because I’m committed to life.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor.

If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it.

I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

I love reluctant heroes, all of that.

I'm kind of a reluctant guru.

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously, it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness.

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

People who commit crimes are generally reluctant to tell on themselves.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.

The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

The military sensed weakness, exploited it and played Barack Obama. Obama's foreign policy has been consistently hawkish despite this reluctant warrior schtick that he pulls. But at the end of the day a reluctant warrior is still a warrior. Look at the drone strikes, the tripling of the war in Afghanistan, and now Libya. I'm convinced that had Obama been in the Senate in 2003 he would have voted for the Iraq war. He's clearly easily convinced by his advisers and the Pentagon.

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission.

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

Your wealth maybe hiding right behind the very thing you are reluctant to do.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'

The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

With my own music, I'm much more reluctant to say, you know, 'This record slaps!'