Quotes About Resolve

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

problema, me convierto en parte del problema. Cuando estoy bien centrada en mi interior, me convierto en parte de la solución. Ese fenómeno, multiplicado muchas veces, es la fuerza que salvará al mundo.

not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

I have decided the two choices open to me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I believe I have done, by dwelling on them. So, no more of that.

I could probably not say more than that life is a very deep mystery, and that finally the grace of God is all that can resolve it. And the grace of God is also a very deep mystery.

sometimes I'm just up the whole night wishing I weren't. (I do recommend prayer at such times, because often they mean something is in need of resolving.

I have decided the two options for me are (1) to torment myself or (2) to trust the Lord. There is no earthly solution to the problems that confront me. But I can add to my problems, as I have believe I have done, by dwelling on them.

you have to do it till you're done

He had learned that determination is suspect, more so as more effort is involved in it.

We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs

Once anybody makes up their mind to kill then there's no other problem. That's the hard part, making up your mind.

Las ideas eran esenciales, pero, si no las acompañaba una acción resuelta de las víctimas —las mujeres y los obreros—, las bellas palabras se harían humo y nunca saldrían de los mentideros parisinos.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

Marines do not hesitate in combat. If the Corps has a defining philosophy, that's it. In war, when the enemy is foolish enough to show himself, marines go right at him and kill him, risks be damned.

Thomas Paine's The Crisis—"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country . . .

La única forma de ganar es seguir jugando.

Gunny, get down!" Ker told him. "You're going to get hit!" "By the time I get down, I'll already be hit," he said. "So I may as well stand up here and see what the hell is going on.

The ratio of men killed in battle is becoming more favorable to our side. From a little better than two to one last January, the ratio has climbed to more than six to one in favor of our side."20 Westy argued that the ratio so heavily favored allied forces that in time the mounting toll would buckle Hanoi's resolve.

The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.

Craig Binky decided that to salvage his position he would bear any burden and pay any price, and find out exactly what was going on. He had to redeem his honor. He decided to ask a computer. He

heartbroken that lines so loyal, stubborn, and courageous for so long would come to a vacuous end.

One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to the effete disputations of armchair scholars. He grapples with them himself, in his own lifetime.