#willing

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#american men #been #before #bulwark #communities

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#die #easier #endure #find #men

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#break #criminal #good #good actor #like

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#betray #chance #confederation #exercise #federal

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. ↗

— Tom Felton

#closest friends #conversation #friends #go #good

They were willing to do anything to stop me. ↗

— Wilt Chamberlain

#me #stop #were #willing

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#criticized #go #hard #information #mind

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#counted #feel #more #powerful #rights

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #deep #enterprises #going #good

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#mark #mature #out #pointless #programmer