Quotes About Resolve

That's all any of us can do, my dear. We wake up, bolster our resolve, and rise to face the new day. Or else lie in bed and waste our lives.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.

Holmes pensively; 'but our expedition of to-night will solve them all. Ah, here is a four-wheeler, and Miss Morstan is inside. Are you all ready? Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour.' I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It was clear that he thought that our night's work might be a serious one. Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark

and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers that threaten you." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a

We have not many wills, but only one --it cannot be continuously compromised without atrophy setting in altogether.

though our hearts break, we cannot flinch...

I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

For the longer to have had to rack your brains for something the more firmly will is stay once you have got it.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend mine reflecting on it.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Only the carrying out stamps the resolve; till then, it is always a mere intention that can be altered; it exists only in reason, in the abstract. Only in reflection are willing and acting different; in reality they are one.

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

She called this absolute fast because desperate situations require desperate measures.

Says Andrew Murray: Fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, to sacrifice ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.1

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do.

Tears wet my eyes. I'm a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solve this?

But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

was willing to make his best effort.

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

So what else was there but to biopsy?