Best Unwilling Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wealth of Words

“If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.”

Faith Rights Respect Dignity Unwilling Expect Reciprocate Vilification Incite Hatred Private Beliefs

Book:Loderunner

Source: Loderunner

“Those who twist the words of others, to make themselves feel better, are unwilling to do the work to untwist their own.”

Work Feel Better Unwilling Twist Untwist

Author:Christine E. Szymamski

“Because you are not willing to lose, you are losing.”

Life Work Loss Business Relationship Losing Unwilling

Author:Meir Ezra

“The lie behind a problem is, “I am not the creator.” You are just unwilling to admit you are the creator of your problem.”

Life Problem Work Business Relationship Unwilling

Author:Meir Ezra

“There is no future when you work with unwilling people.”

Life Relationships Work Business Unwilling

Author:Meir Ezra

“Unwilling clients tell you that your product is no good. It’s not the product. The problem is unwillingness.”

Work Business Product Clients Unwilling

Author:Meir Ezra

“Resistance is the manifestation of unwillingness.”

Life Work Business Resistance Unwilling

Author:Meir Ezra

“You cannot win while you are unwilling.”

Life Work Business Win Unwilling Lose

Author:Meir Ezra

“If you are unwilling, you will not grant beingness.”

Life Work Business Unwilling Beingmness

Author:Meir Ezra

“Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Extremism is marked by a closed mind and a meanness of spirit - unwilling to listen, unwilling to reason, unwilling to compromise, unwilling to forgive, and in the end, unwilling to learn and unwilling to grow.”

Reason Spirit Growth Learning Listening Forgiveness Compromise Unwilling Meanness Extremism Quotes

Book:The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Message of Hope in a Time of Crisis

“There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.”

Learning Failing Ignorance Shame Learn Unwilling Repeating Past Mistakes

Book:Blythe

Source: Blythe

“Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps; in them are residing great journeys. Move on.”

Source: Shaping the dream

“There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences.”

Fool Consequence Foolish Learn Stubborn Consequences Unwilling Ignore Unwise Ignoring Short Sightedness

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up; and I sleep in here The world far away; yet virtually near Not that I'm jailed in this place of grace Just don't want to face another face”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

Inspirational Liberty Learning Ignorance Experience Shame Intelligence Ignorant Unwilling Poor Richard Exam Lifelong Learner Willful Ignorance Stupidity And Ignorance Knowledge And Ignorance Being Ignorant Ignorance Is Not Bliss Funny Exam

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.”

Ifs Mean Values President Interest Extremes President Obama Unwilling Colorado

Author:Ken Buck

“When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.”

Trying Kind States America Answers Attention Saws Missing Needed Safe Criticism Mma Unwilling Theatrical Rivalry Miss America

Author:Ronda Rousey

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

Virtue Ethics Faults Endeavor Unwilling

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.”

People Way Mind Believe Seems Force Opinion Society Propaganda Justify Penetrate Unwilling Instill True Believer

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!”

Mankind Gratitude Unwilling

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“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.”

Ifs Accepting Particular Agreement Yield Rejected Justified Unwilling Inference

Book:Problems and projects

Source: Problems and projects

“Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call.”

Real Next Difficult Party Sea Security Crime Scene Blind Ships Warning Investigation Schedules Blindness Floats Peril Incidents Unwilling Port Passengers Thorough Blinded Cruise Operators

Author:Chris Shays

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Given Sin Giving Up Salvation Nevertheless Sacraments Unwilling Baptism Renounce Unbelief

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“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.”

“I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.”

People Trying Real Moving Hate Company I Hate Sells Entrepreneur Hardest Working It Cash Unwilling

Author:Steve Jobs

“The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary.”

Unnecessary Unwilling Incompetent

Book:Generation Kill

Source: Generation Kill

“It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.”

Thinking Littles Real Might Fighting Courses Term Growing Progress Overcoming Developing Surprising Unwilling Idiosyncrasies

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense — and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence.”

Self States Law Order Violence Citizens Prove Western Defense Accepted Unwilling Self Defense Ku Klux Klan

Author:Robert F. Williams

“What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.”

Ifs Doe Form Morality Negative Empty Preserves Submit Lacking Norm Immoral Grammar Unwilling Amorality

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.”

Care Speak Stones Listeners Arrows Unwilling Lodges No One Cares Recoil

Author:St. Jerome

“My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.”

Death Spirit Dies Sleep Sky Weak Sick Hardship Mortality Eagles Unwilling Steep Pinnacle Godlike

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.”

Believe Doe Pain Belief Effort Fiction Depends Sight Disappear Anxious Spares Promoting Unwilling Oligarchy No Pain Plain Sight

Author:Michael Lind

“A society that does not defend itself is doomed. A system that remains passive in the face of attack deserves to go under. Those unwilling to defend freedom will become unfree. To stand idly by is to commit suicide.”

Doe Faces Deserve Remains Suicide Commit Passive Doomed Unwilling Unfree

Author:Brian Crozier

“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.”

I Can Self Actors Can Do Company Player Identity Jokes Theater Certainty Variety Permanent Unwilling Troupe

Author:Philip Roth

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

Hands Study Unwilling Folding

Author:Joshua Roman

“We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.”

People Mean Government Rights Protect Areas Property Unwilling

Author:Malcolm X

“Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable.”

Mind Made Bed Shore Unwilling

Author:William Carlos Williams

“If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.”

Ifs States Hands Order Community United United States Failing Security International Enforcement Saddam Invited Council Hussein Unwilling International Community Security Council

Author:John F. Kerry

“Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.”

Mean Ideas Games Winning Instruments Prize Anticipation Unwilling Hazards Grasping Interpreting Refutation Unjustified

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts.”

Mind Heart Long Courses Pay Attitude Unity Unwilling Pay The Price

Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.”

Doe Jesus Christ Path Sacrifice Danger Calling Mets Followers Disciple Herds Unwilling

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”

Way Self Awareness Waste Destruction Acknowledge Devoted Indulgence Unwilling Ecological Self Destruction Tokens Self Destruct

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.”

Self Philosophy Political Self Esteem Fit Lows Stealing Socialism Esteem Willingness Stolen Unwilling Low Self Esteem Incompetence Loathing Self Loathing Habitat Mosquitoes Slugs

Author:L. Neil Smith

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.”

“The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.”

Long Stills States Done Law Issues Long Time Constitution Fundamentals Court Appeals Illegal Homosexual Unwilling

Author:Byron White

“Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.”

People Kind Various Conformity Unwilling Dummy

Author:Neal Ascherson

“A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.”

World Names Christ Selfish Sinner Confession Hung Unwilling Cowardly

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical sense of that word, as an immediately available and reusable memory bank.”

Seems Memories Treats Available Theatre Heritage Unwilling Theatrical Postmodern

Book:Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

Source: Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture

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