“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.” PeopleIfsLifeGivingMotivationalSuccessOpportunityForcePowerfulAcceptingFailingWillingBlessingEssentialsHandleBitterMost PowerfulDisguisePillsBounceBlessings In Disguise Author:Joseph Sugarman
“Once you become very powerful and advanced, you must be willing to go back to school and start over, and go to a wise person who will show you the way. Very few people are willing to do that.” PeopleWayPersonsShowsSchoolPowerfulWiseWillingStarting OverVery PowerfulSamadhiWise Person Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think passion is something that's more powerful than even love. It's something that you're not willing to let go of, and you'll work really hard to make sure that stays a part of your life.” ThinkingHardPassionPowerfulWillingLetting Go Author:Bethany Hamilton
“God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.” IfsHeartSoulPowerfulGraceWillingConsequenceFruitConversionUnwillingPious Author:Thomas Goodwin
“It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.” PersonsTwoPoliticalLyingPowerfulWillingInstitutionsTwo ThingsAmplifyPowerful Person Author:Rick Perlstein
“The most important external environment is the government of India. You have to sell your ideas to the government. Selling the idea is the most important thing, and for that I'll meet anybody in the government. I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is an ego.” InspirationalImportantIdeasGovernmentPowerfulEnvironmentOne ThingWillingEgoIndiaImportant ThingsSellsSellingExternal Environment Author:Dhirubhai Ambani
“Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.” ThinkingDreamPowerfulPayWillingPursuitYour DreamsLive By Author:Les Brown
“If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither all-powerful or benevolent. If they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?” IfsDoeAbleEvilPowerfulWillingRemoveBenevolent Author:Epicurus
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.” WorldLongGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulCompanyDemocracyMiddleTaughtWillingBalancePaidWestWesternHeavyOilEastOppressionCodeOperationsRegionsFriendlyMost PowerfulTyrantsRegimesMiddle EastDictatorshipTolerateLimitlessCiaAugustCoupsTiltOil CompaniesAjaxPowerful Government Author:Stephen Kinzer
“Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.” MenYearsCountryDoneAmericaYoungInterestCan DoLinesPowerfulPartyRecordsGroupsWillingMy FriendsToughDemocraticSignificantGreat ThingsOur CountryYoung ManSubstitutesSenateGiftedSenatorsDemocratic PartyTough TimesEloquenceEloquentInterest Groups Author:Joe Lieberman
“We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.” IfsShouldLongFactsGovernmentJobsChoicesAsksPowerfulPayKnownAcceptingGreaterEffectsWillingReturnHigherExerciseSafetyWorkersLibertarianFirmPerformingAgreementWorkplaceWagesCautionAdverseEnhancementWorkplace SafetyAdverse Effects Author:Robert H. Frank
“As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.” IfsWorldMeanPersonsLongPowerfulDemocracyWillingHealthyRemainsPursueMost PowerfulReportersWrathAmerican DemocracyIncurringPowerful Person Author:Jonathan Karl