Reluctant Quotes

I think I like reluctant protagonists.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

— Mason Cooley

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

— Timothy West

The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

— David Giuntoli

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

— Charles M. Schwab

“The only good leader is a reluctant one.”

— Tony Vigorito

I speak my mind on everything. I'm not reluctant.

— Jim Boeheim

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

— Jon Foreman

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

— Jacqueline Woodson

One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.

— Suzanne Collins

“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”

— Bertrand Russell

“...he was reluctant to return to New York, a town less supportive of his sort of art.”

— Lindsay Pollock

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

— Jason Alexander

If you know what you got and like it, be reluctant to leave it.

— Johnny Hunt

“We are all deeply moved; yet irreverent; yet penitent; yet anxious to get it over; yet reluctant to part.”

— Virginia Woolf

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

— J. D. McClatchy

There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for…

— Andy Goldsworthy

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

— Mark Twain

I realized that I found a lot of solace in performing and found parts of myself that I was perhaps too reluctant…

— Harris Dickinson

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your…

— Kathleen Edwards

“It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word…

— Anonymous

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom…

— Eric Hoffer

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to…

— Oprah Winfrey

“back of the other person. Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who are reluctant to do this and/or feel very awkward…

— Joe Navarro

People don't turn away from an attorney sitting in a wheelchair. If the guy has got the reputation for being the best…

— Gerald McRaney

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In fact, I point out that all the conspiracies in history - especially during the last 5000 years - are actually different…

— Eustace Mullins

I've been very reluctant on the Twitter front. But I do Instagram now, so I'm slowly coming around. I'm quite a private…

— Jeremy Irvine

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect…

— Jon Scieszka

At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong…

— Naomi Oreskes

If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and…

— Anthony Eden

Why is there such insistence that AGW has occurred and needs drastic solutions? This is a puzzle, but my short answer is…

— Don Aitkin

It's not fear of striking out that makes me reluctant to step up to the plate. It's the fear of getting hit…

— Anonymous

I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant,…

— John F. Kennedy

As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Often the children of God cannot rise up to answer the Lord's call to service simply because, though their physical condition is…

— Watchman Nee

At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,…

— Oswald Spengler

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they…

— Daniel Byman

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.…

— Ezra Taft Benson