I am willing but unable. [ Motto ]
All pride is willing pride. [ William Shakespeare ]
Feet that run on willing errands! [ Longfellow ]
A willing mind makes a light foot. [ Proverb ]
All lay load on the willing horse. [ Proverb ]
Nothing's impossible to a willing mind. [ Proverb ]
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free. [ Dawes ]
Willing minds take up with poor exercises. [ Proverb ]
But can the noble mind forever brood,
The willing victim of a weary mood,
On heartless cares that squander life away,
And cloud young Genius brightening into day? [ Campbell ]
'Tis something to be willing to commend;
But my best praise is, that I am your friend. [ Southerne ]
It is hope alone that makes us willing to live. [ Proverb ]
Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. [ Proverb ]
Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. [ Seneca, from Cleanthes ]
Destiny leads the willing, but drags the unwilling. [ Proverb ]
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]
Nobody is willing to acknowledge he is in the fault. [ Proverb ]
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. [ Longfellow ]
No man is willing to own him, who is out of the good opinion of the world. [ Proverb ]
When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. [ Goldsmith ]
A willing heart adds feather to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury. [ Joanna Baillie ]
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love. [ Chamfort ]
A friend is a being that is willing to bear with us in all our faults and failings. [ G. Forster ]
The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. [ Lew Wallace ]
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. [ Seneca ]
Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather. [ Cicero ]
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. [ Juvenal ]
We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. [ La Bruyfere ]
Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love. [ Peloubet ]
In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What a fool is he who says to a woman. Will you? Dost not know, simpleton, that they always pretend not to be willing? [ Alfred Bougeart ]
No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. [ Capt. John Brown ]
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]
To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so. [ Pope ]
A friend is he who sets his heart upon us, is happy with us and delights in us; does for us what we want, is willing and fully engaged to do all he can for us, on whom we can rely in all cases. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. [ Hume ]
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it. [ Carlyle ]
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. [ Hume ]
Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]
Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]