Quotes About Resolve

Obama really is a warrior in chief. He's not afraid to get the job done.

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

I think that Americans - and this is not true just now, but over the years - are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

If she was going to be brave, then be brave.

man, letting all her doubts fade

A man could say every day that he wanted to change his life, was going to change it, and every day the lament became merely a part of the life he was already living, so that the desire for change was in fact a kind of stasis that allowed the unchanged life to continue, because at least the man knew to disapprove of it, which reassured him not all was lost.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there." "Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?" "Yes," he said.

again. Fred

stubborn since he came into the world. He won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the burglaries and puts the offenders behind bars, no matter

I'm going to have to be content with doing

Just a kiss, he told himself. A simple taste and then they both could move on.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off. If my mother's friend had said, "Never mind, it's too much work," I'd have blown my top, because I want to beat this damn thing, as long as I've gone this far. I can't just leave it after I've found out so much about it. I have to keep going to find out ultimately what is the matter with it in the end.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

When the chips are down, when you have to weigh what you believe in against your own safety – that's when you find out what you're made of.