No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

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.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

In information technology, money is not the issue. Willingness to implement and execute is the issue.

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

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.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

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

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

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

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.