Quotes of Reluctance - somelinesforyou

“ Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. ”

- Terence

“ There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ He who hesitates is a damned fool. ”

- Mae West

“ Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it. ”

- William Feather

“ The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. ”

- Nikki Giovanni

“ One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well — but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity… ”

- Shirley Hazzard
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