Quotes About Resolve

They never spoke of what they wished they might do in the future, they never wondered whether some mysterious omnipotence had favored them with some unknowable talent to achieve the things they wanted --- they spoke of what they would do.

you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well

you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be sib born for something as well

There is no excuse for not trying.

Better to be strong,' he [Lolo] said...'if you can't be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who's strong. But always better to be strong yourself.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?

Sometimes you can't worry about hurt. Sometimes you worry only about getting where you have to go." We

But know this America: we will meet them

They chanted and stomped and swore to never leave

the months to come, I'd think back often to my dinner with Abbas and Netanyahu, Mubarak and King Abdullah, the pantomime of it, their lack of resolve. To insist that the old order in the Middle East would indefinitely hold, to believe that the children of despair wouldn't revolt, at some point, against those who maintained it—that, it turned out, was the greatest illusion of all. —

Whatever you don't won't be enough. Try anyway.

Il y a des moments dans un combat électoral, comme dans la vie, où tous les chemins possible qui s'ouvraient à vous se ferment soudain, à l'exception d'un seul ; des moments où le large éventail de probabilités qui semblait se déployer se réduit à une seule issue, inévitable.

You're sure about this?" "No. But I'm doing it anyway. I have to.

I had discovered that writing--with whatever instrument--was a powerful aid to thinking, and thinking was what I now resolved to do.

But he had made his choice and had patiently put his life to rights afterward, though it had been years before he could sit through certain songs.

This is all going to scare us to death," she said. "You and me. But we're still going to have to do it.

Red on! Depends much. So?

I'd tried all the options with Mom and had only one place left to go on her. Cold.

You have to get up every morning and decide again, in the cold lonely light of day, am I brave enough to stick this out?

His gal had thrown down, and he was going to follow her wherever that led.

When your sword meets that of your enemy, you can never waver, but must instead attack with the complete resolution of your whole body… —Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings

Strangeland's confidence in her, the risks she was willing to run . . . it was all producing a roiling mess of emotion she couldn't deal with right now. She managed to push it away and handed

I was taken aback by his gumption. He sounded more petulant than afraid. I realized this kid didn't understand the kind of trouble he was in. If he didn't tell me what I wanted to know I would have to adjust his attitude.

turn aside her sorrow with the sword" (ferroque averte dolorem;