All birth is unwilling.
—Pearl S. Buck
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the one thing I can do.
—Edward Everett Hale
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
—Joan Didion