Quotes About Resoluteness

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Don't say maybe if you want to say no.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The short answer is 'No.' The long answer is 'Hell No.'

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

had cooled into determination and begun to assume

You know the great thing about Truman," he told Goodwin, "is that once he makes up his mind about something—anything, including the A bomb—he never looks back and asks 'should I have done it? Oh! Should I have done it?' No, he just knows he made up his mind as best he could and that's that. There's no going back. I wish I had some of that quality.

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.