Quotes About Resolve

Make up your mind, yaar, choose one thing.' 'How can I? I'm just a human being,' he replied

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

The young man who had worked so hard to ingratiate himself with his superiors in the British Army was suddenly breathing fire. Washington was always reluctant to sign on to any cause, because when he did so, his commitment was total.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

The uproar didn't weaken Rockefeller's resolve, yet for all his bravado the boycott exacted a grave toll on his operations.

He was the embodiment of power and purpose.

Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act. He brooded over problems and quietly matured plans over extended periods. Once he had made up his mind, however, he was no longer troubled by doubts and pursued his vision with undeviating faith. Unfortunately, once in that state of mind, he was all but deaf to criticism. He was like a projectile that, once launched, could never be stopped, never recalled, never diverted.

in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

He was not a man to abandon a project that had received his blessing.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

Though Potts wished to fight on, Scott was inclined to relent.

but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

I would do what I thought best.

Rockefeller decided he had had enough.

If peace was really within reach wasn't it immoral to fail?

Don't worry about why it went wrong. Just damn well put it right.

Time to shit or get off the pot.

You could try, Reacher said. But you'd get hurt. You're out of your league. You're up against something you never saw before. You have a mighty high opinion of yourself. Reacher nodded at Neagley. I'm talking about her. I'm just here to clear up the mess.

A person either runs or he fights. It's a binary choice, and I'm a fighter.

Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever.

What don't you need to do? she asked him. ... You don't need to solve all the world's problems, Joe. Only some of them. There are enough to go around. ... You've got the strength of two normal boys, she said. Then came my own personal question. What are you going to do with this strength? she asked me. I didn't answer. I never did. You're going to do the right thing, she said.

don't know why he's there, but I promise you he's clean, and he's going to do what needs doing, or he's going to die trying.