Quotes About Resolve

The man who is able to make a commitment rarely does this kind of dancing back and forth. He may move slowly, but he continues to move in the same direction.

But if you are hell-bent on persuading someone, or if your back is truly against the wall, you might as well give it your best shot.

Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.

Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

Failure may be an option but quitting is not.

one can imagine a leader who has a changing willingness to suffer a cost over time, increasing as the conflict proceeds and his resolve toughens. His motto would be: "We fight on so that our boys shall not have died in vain." This mindset, known as loss aversion, the sunk-cost fallacy, and throwing good money after bad, is patently irrational, but it is surprisingly pervasive in human decision-making.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

There is no love where there is no will

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Love will conquer at the last.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!

A problem is something to solve. If there's no solution, it's not a problem, so stop treating it like one.

Dad didn't believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can.

I couldn't wait for success ? so I went ahead without it.

Perhaps it's not reasonable to ask God to break the rules of physics every time we fall by the wayside or make a serious error. Perhaps, in such times, you can't put the cart before the horse and simply wish for your problem to be solved in some magical manner. Perhaps you could ask, instead, what you might have to do right now to increase your resolve, buttress your character, and find the strength to go on. Perhaps you could instead ask to see the truth.

the worst decision of all is none.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.

What is it that is bothering me?" "Is that something I could fix?" and "Would I actually be willing to fix it?