Top 1200 Willingness To Sacrifice Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

You can criticize ESPN for a lot of things, but one thing you have to give them credit for is their willingness to put women in nontraditional roles.

A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.

Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

Leaders exhibit two essential characteristics, the willingness to confront adversity and a clearly articulated future preference.

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction and aspiration and from a willingness to struggle for his ways and beliefs.

The Obama administration demonstrated time and again a disturbing willingness to bypass the separation of powers and disregard Congress as a Constitutional watchdog.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate.

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.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

There are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. Most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. The funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. One thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health.

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

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.

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

It doesn't matter how much you already know. It's about showing humility and a willingness to learn; not just in movies, but in life in general.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

Bringing your kids into the kitchen doesn't require you to be a top chef; only time and maybe a willingness to get a little messy.

The key, I suppose, has less to do with insight than with willingness, the former being relatively useless without the latter.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

...It’s not the lies that hurt people. It’s the willingness of everyone else to believe them..." Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon

When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.

Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!

My strengths and weaknesses are the same: I've got the willingness and stupidity to try anything. If I think it's even remotely possible, I'll do it.

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.