Quotes About Resolve

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

I received an offer from China: I would've earned an incredible sum. But Napoli didn't want me to go, and I wanted to stay. So nothing came of it.

I will never be a super sub. I want to play.

You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Everything assigned to us is a challenge; nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by your tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning.

It is a blessed moment of inner life when one decides or resolves from now on to love with all one's strength and unflinchingly that which one fears the most, that which has made us—according to our own measure—suffer too much. Don't you believe that once such a decision has been made, the word "separation" is nothing but a name stripped of all meaning

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

What I must do is all that concerns me

Rilke advised, "with all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given, for you wouldn't be able to live with them, and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now, and perhaps without knowing it, you will live along someday into the answers.

Foulgrin: If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes. (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)

knowing does not guarantee doing. Doing engages the will and a preset commitment.

There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you.

I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.

don't face a problem, burn it.

You don't stay for nothing.

Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.