Quotes About Resoluteness

Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakeable joy.

There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

No changing your mind.

The pro keeps coming on. He beats Resistance at its own game by being even more resolute and even more implacable than it is.

Once you stand anywhere, you turn to stone

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Not through fame and accomplishment. But through Uncompromising Sincerity. Be not a pretender, my dear student. Be Uncompromising. For the man who refuses to compromise holds The Universe in his hands.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Shoo the sparrow away and get on with supper. This is the first part of my new life strategy.

Sincerity of purpose.

One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely and changing them slowly.

I didn't want to sit in the murky unknown. I wanted to stand on concrete.

Laws should be made of iron, not pudding.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.

When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.

I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.