In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music the ups and downs of the audience.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song if I choose to not look inside myself to write music I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say no we can't afford certain things. No we can't do certain things.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.

When I was 15 I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans not $70 jeans unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

All men commend patience although few are willing to practice it.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves they therefore remain bound.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think because thinking is such hard work.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.