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Quotes About Resolve

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfilment. If I set for myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
~ George S. Clason
Where the Determination is, the Way Can Be Found
~ George S. Clason
I staggered weakly to my feet. What mattered hunger? What mattered thirst? They were but incidents on the road to Babylon. Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve.
~ George S. Clason
La voluntad no es más que la determinación inflexible de llevar a cabo lo se ha impuesto.
~ George S. Clason
My first judgment is my best. Yet always have I found it difficult to compel myself to proceed with a good bargain when made.
~ George S. Clason
his very good intentions may bring him into difficulties.
~ George S. Clason
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
~ George S. Clason
I thrilled with the great resolve.
~ George S. Clason
Therefore am I more determined than ever to carry through
~ George S. Clason
WHERE DETERMINATION IS, THE WAY CAN BE FOUND.
~ George S. Clason
Have been sleepwalking through life, future reader. Can see that now. Scratch-Off win was like wake-up call. In rush to graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forgot former feeling of special destiny I used to have when tiny, sitting in cedar-smelling bedroom closet, looking up at blowing trees through high windows, feeling I would someday do something great. Hereby resolve to live life in new and more powerful way, starting THIS MOMENT (!)
~ George Saunders
But (we stopped ourselves short) was this not just wishful thinking? Weren't we, in order to enable ouselves to go on, positing from our boy a blessing we could not possibly verify? Yes. Yes we were. But we must do so, and believe it, or else we were ruined. And we must not be ruined. But must go on.
~ George Saunders
But (we stopped ourselves short) was this not just wishful thinking? Weren't we, in order to enable ourselves to go on, positing from our boy a blessing we could not possibly verify? Yes. Yes we were. But we must do so, and believe it, or else we were ruined. And we must not be ruined. But must go on.
~ George Saunders
Our path is not for everyone. Many people—I do not mean to disparage them? Lack the necessary resolve.
~ George Saunders
William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. "The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make
~ George Sheehan
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
~ George W. Bush
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.
~ George W. Bush
Americans have the capacity now, as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.
~ George W. Bush
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do---then do it with all your strength.
~ George Washington
One can always save one's own soul. - Lazare whispered. She uttered the sentence without moving, without even looking up. She gave me the feeling of unshakable conviction.
~ Georges Bataille
It is as if you were living with the constant dread that the slightest weakening of your resolution might, all at once, take you too far. It is as if you constantly needed to tell yourself: it is this way because I wanted it this way, I wanted it this way, otherwise I am dead.
~ Georges Perec
But that's what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!
~ Georgette Heyer
You need have no fear. But were I to meet you, sir, you would lie dead at my feet within the space of five minutes. Possibly less. I do not know. He appeared to give the matter his consideration.
~ Georgette Heyer
If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?
~ Georgette Heyer