Noun
The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPatriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Wilfred Owen
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Scott Adams
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. Marshall McLuhan
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion