Unwilling Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Unwilling
Unwilling Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Unwilling quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
— Dorothy Parker
Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot.
— Erika Johansen
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
— Jeaniene Frost
It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.
— Yoshida Kenko
for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Some men are so willing to know their future,but unwilling to face the fear of their own death. — Toba Beta
Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties
— George Washington
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.
— Marcus Aurelius
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
— Peter Watts
There is treasure hidden beneath the entire land, but the problem is people are unwilling to dig it out.
— Waqar Masood
How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?
— Charlie Courtland
I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary
— Richard Harkness
She walked about disdainfully, unwilling to be enthusiastic over monuments of uncertain authorship or date.
— E. M. Forster
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
— Charles Spurgeon
She slung an arm around his waist, unwilling to let go of him lest he turn into wind and vanish.
— Sarah J. Maas
Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.
— Arlen Price
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
— Stephen A. Diamond
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
— Lee Kuan Yew
God is unwilling to do everything Himself, lest He deprive us of our free will and of that portion of glory that belongs to us.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
We the unwilling, led by the unqualified, will perform the unbelievable for the ungrateful
— Cathy Cash Spellman
magic does not live in the unwilling soul.
— Diane Duane
The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
— Brandon Mull
Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
— Osbert Lancaster
There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.
— Sherman Alexie
One reason we never tame the busy this beast is that we are unwilling to kill anything.
— Kevin DeYoung
A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
— Keith Olbermann
The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.
— Ellen Swallow Richards
Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
— John B. S. Haldane
Hoping and dreaming of a better world are not enough if we are unwilling to work - but when we work towards our dreams, wonderful things can happen.
— Lloyd D. Newell
To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.
— Gautama Buddha
Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.
— Bernard Lewis
If you're unwilling to defer pleasure or endure some "pain" for now, are you likely to end up later deep in the hole?
— Price Pritchett
Discovery is dangerous ... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. — Brian Herbert
Comparisons are like rigid fingers - eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for each other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment
— George Meredith
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.
— Jimmy Savile
My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.
— Thomas A Kempis
Her fierce creature of a mind: sleek and sharp-clawed and utterly unwilling to be caught.
— Marie Rutkoski
Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.
— Byron White
All birth is unwilling.
— Pearl S. Buck
I rock in his arms under the stars and the blanket of night air, unwilling or unable to tear myself away.
— Lisa Daily
They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion.
— J.B. Phillips
If you are unwilling to fail, sometimes publicly and even catastrophically, you will never be rich.
— Felix Dennis
Desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move
— Emily Giffin
As if unwilling to awaken the unused echoes. At
— Elizabeth Gaskell
She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave ...
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.
— T.F. Hodge
The traditional joke stereotype of the board is 'the unworthy appointed by the unwilling for the unnecessary'.
— Bob Garratt
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his creatures should destroy themselves.
— Anatole France
When no one knows who is the expert, and the expert for whatever reason is unwilling to speak up, expertise is lost.
— Jeanne M. Brett
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices other are unwilling to.
— Kim Ki-jung
A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Most men are unwilling to be taught.
— Samuel Johnson
Unwilling to give-up & willing to fail. That's how you succeed.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
— Henry Kissinger
Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre...
— Assegid Habtewold
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
— Mike Murdock
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
— James Russell Lowell
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
— Lord Chesterfield
If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires - they are merely daydreams.
— Nathaniel Branden
Love is not at its fullest if one who lives is unwilling to die for it, or if it cannot restore to life one who has died.
— Tang Xianzu
Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
— Francois Rabelais
