Quotes About Resolve

Good idea. I'll do it.

He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so, had located the exact boundary of despair.

And Johannes Voelker is the last man on Earth I'd choose as a spiritual director for Sandoz, he thought. Shit or get off the pot, my son.

Maybe it fostered in me a creeping ambition-deficit disorder, but it could ease an ache. So anything worth doing could be undertaken later. Paint the apartment, write a book, quit booze, sure: tomorrow. Which

That was when it happened, exactly then, the end of a phase, the mental click as the last strand of my private resistance gave way; when I admitted, looking down at his candid blue eyes: there's nothing I wouldn't do for you, absolutely nothing.

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.

determined to do the only thing you could do — determined to save the only life you could save.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.

I am satisfied: miserable wretch! you have determined to live, and I am satisfied.

I can offer you no consolation, my friend, said he; your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?

Mi resolución es tan firme como el destino

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This

Non v'è contributo migliore di un fermo proposito per tranquillizzare la mente, di un obiettivo, cioè, su cui l'anima fissi il suo sguardo intellettivo.

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock.

pues no hay nada mejor para tranquilizar la mente que un propósito constante, un punto donde el alma pueda fijar la mirada de su intelecto.

It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.

I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties.

porque nada contribuye tanto a tranquilizar la mente como un firme propósito, un punto en que el alma pueda fijar su mira intelectual

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do

These reflections determined me, and I resolved to remain silent.

nada contribuye tanto a tranquilizar el espíritu como un propósito firme: un punto en el cual el alma pueda fijar su mirada intelectual.