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“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

Way Firsts May Two Character Seems Form Ability Failing Greatness Succeed Importance Trials Spite Willingness Flawed Starting Over Measurement Two Ways Ability To Succeed

Author:Guy Finley

“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.”

Pain Form Waiting Ability Happened Birth Patient Uncertainty Tension Something New Endurance Willingness Unfolding Coexist Unknowing

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.”

Sometimes Ability Accepting Willingness Tied Can't Change Willingness To Change

Author:Bill Crawford

“What I expect from my male friends is that they are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, a complete and total willingness to pour their hearts out to me, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.”

Heart Women Friendship Ability Female Clean Males Bones Sentences Meat Unconditional Love Willingness Polite Unconditional Sobbing Thermometers Female Friends

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.”

Needs Ability Compassion Right Now Willingness Doing Right Ability To See

Book:Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

“When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.”

Culture Ability Expectations Customers Faster Willingness Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.”

Law Ability Dangerous Willingness Ability To Change

Author:Robin Wasserman

“Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.”

Ifs Desire Ability Claims Willingness Components

Author:Rhonda Britten

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.”

Persons Long Self Found Can Do Ability Interesting Conditions Determined Tolerance Barriers Willingness Controlled Determinism Aberration

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.”

Giving Political Politics Term Ability Principles Five Keys Giving Up Commitment Compromise Willingness Cowardice Statesmen Exhibits Term Limits

Author:Tom Coburn

“Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.”

Want Ability Willingness Do Whatever You Want

Author:Seth

“Freedom is like holding a small bird. If you squeeze it too hard, you will kill it. But if you don't hold it firmly enough, it will fly away. Indeed, freedom can be both fragile and elusive, and so-as the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum so powerfully reminds us-it requires our eternal vigilance, our willingness, our ability, our conviction to stand up for that which we think is right.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Enough Ability Eternal Bird Conviction Willingness Museums Fragile Elusive Vigilance Fly Away Eternal Vigilance

Author:Alex Kotlowitz

“The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.”

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In