Quotes About Resolve

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Decide while you're young to keep the commandments of God, and you won't have to think fast, because before temptation even steps up to the bat, you'll have made your decision. You were smart enough to think first.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

I've always said I got to where I am not by being a great singer, but by being stubborn, by being tenacious, by being pigheaded.

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

I was always tenacious.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

My tenacity and determination to be true to the person I had become were sacrosanct.

I am very determined but I also have a tendency to be very stubborn. If I'm ever told I can't do something I put my mind to or that I won't be able to accomplish, I automatically think of it is a dare that I won't do it and it makes me that much more determined to get it accomplished.

If I can't do something and excel at it and do it well, I have a tendency to give up on it really easy.

If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.

You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.

With tennis, no one's going to give it to you. You have to be determined.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to resolve the tension between their split identities.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.