Quotes About Resolve

Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.

The most important was not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness. If one is not so prepared, then only threaten to resign along with several other people capable of bringing down the Government.

When General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was in charge at Saint-Omer (77 letters) reported that it was impossible to embark the entire force in twenty-four hours, Napoleon expostulated, 'Impossible, sir! I am not acquainted with the word; it is not in the French language, erase it from your dictionary.

not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness.

But what has been begun must be carried through.'86

If you would make war,' he would say to to General d'Hedouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.

If you make war,' he would say to General d'Hédouville in December 1799, 'wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.'79

Derek frowned, looking down. "That's fine... I'll just, uh, stand here. And protect you. Yes. That is definitely what I will be doing.

Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I've found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute.

Words without action behind them are about as useful as an empty cup in the hands of a man dying of thirst.

To make things work, people do not need to side with you; you only need them to commit themselves to pursue a course of action that has been decided upon.

The perfection of intention. In the end, it is all that matters.

I'd realized that the surest way forward was to burn all the bridges behind.

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

We won't manage to do much more than we're capable of,' he said more quietly and more warmly. 'But we shall all do our best to make sure it won't be much less.

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He would not even have declined had she suggested they walked into hell to drink a cup of boiling tar with some fiery demons.

Geralt?' 'Mm?' 'Don't kill it . . . Can you not?' 'A sword is a sword, Dandelion. Once drawn . . . ' 'Please try.' 'I will.

No sólo no volveré por estos lares —continuó Geralt pacientemente—, sino que dejaré de actuar del todo como brujo. Nunca más mataré a ninguno de vosotros.

To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.

Non si può obbligare un soldato a smettere di avere paura, tuttavia gli si può fornire una motivazione che lo aiuti a superarla.

If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.

Se il fine chiama, il modo si trova.

Lo único que se lamenta es el haber sido inactivo, indeciso, vacilante. Aunque a veces la acción y la decisión producen pena y tristeza, una no se arrepiente de ellas nunca".