Top 386 Unwilling Quotes & Sayings

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.

The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way that the church wanted me to structure it.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a good thing upon a people who are unwilling to receive it. The great principle is the right of every community to judge and decide for itself, whether a thing is right or wrong, whether it would be good or evil for them to adopt it; and the right of free action, the right of free thought, the right of free judgment upon the question is dearer to every true American than any other under a free government.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.

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

Moscow is simply unwilling to recognize the right of self-determination of nations.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.

If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit.

Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.

I was unwilling and we remain unwilling to be part of the problem. I was unwilling to be part of the problem just to get to the office.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

No man achieves great success who is unwilling to make personal sacrifices.

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.

The wise is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.

If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

For many years I was unwilling to share my personal experiences.

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

When it comes to public school education, we have been unwilling to measure our results. We've been unwilling to pay based on performance. We have tenure where, even if you can't teach, you can't get fired. We've been unwilling to invest in new schools.

All birth is unwilling.

God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.

Whoever is unwilling to help himself can be helped by no one.

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'