Quotes About Resolve

He merely slid into the matter through his inability to make definite judgments. He could say No! neither to man nor woman; borrower and temptress alike found him tender-minded and pliable. Indeed he seldom made decisions at all, and when he did they were but half-hysterical resolves formed in the panic of some aghast and irreparable awakening.

I knew I'd be tongue-tied soon, so I tried to press my worry down by telling myself what Grandpa Leong used to tell me, that the best way to conquer fear is to act. Open the mouth and tell.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and light —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.

The statesmen who led the Allied countries through war and depression knew better and resolved to give idealism a chance.

have to tell you, though, I'd do it again.

don't. So there.

Leo Tolstoy quote: 'The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.' " "Thank you for that, Jack," Charles said tongue in cheek.

until she was ready. Damn good and ready. In order to be damn good and ready, she had to make a pit stop to fortify herself for what was to come.

decided yet what to do with her," Annie said briskly.

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

The passionate desire to conclude is one of humanity's most pernicious and sterile manias.

resolve is not incompatible with Christian humility.

There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough.

The fastest way to get me to go out and do something is to tell me no way I can do it.

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Would I like to do a feature? Absolutely.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.

If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'

I'm fierce. I'm very determined, and always had that in me. I didn't have to train myself to be the way I am.

I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.