Top 1200 Willingness To Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. All the evidence shows that people who do not drive, do not fly on planes, do shop locally, do grow their own food, and do get to know other members of their community have a much higher quality of life than their compatriots who still persist in making the ultimate sacrifice of wasting their lives commuting to work in cars.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.

I approach all of my movies with an open mind and a willingness to dive in and do what's asked of me.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.

Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.

With better vision, we sacrifice for students for whom that sacrifice will most likely pay off. I'm sorry to say this, but there are times when even superhuman effort will not save a child from his environment or himself. It's not the job of the teacher to save a child's soul; it is the teachers' job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

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

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

There really is a camaraderie among chefs and a willingness to help out whenever we can.

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.

This mix of willingness and passion made me the businesswoman I am now.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

Hillary Clinton should be applauded for her willingness to serve publicly.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia, but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

My techniques are basics, but my willingness to be in the pocket and see things is very high level.

I would sacrifice peace for a sovereign Bosnia-Herzegovina ... but for that peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina I would not sacrifice sovereignty.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

An economist's definition of hatred is the willingness to pay a price to inflict harm on others.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and a willingness to act in its defense.

I came here to Hercules with a willingness to do well, and my objective is to demonstrate my worth and my ambition.

The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.

Without ambition, drive and the willingness to make sacrifices, I don't think you get anywhere.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

I miss the willingness to go your own path and be original.

Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.