Quotes About Resolve

Here, where the lonely hooting owl Sends forth his midnight moans, Fierce wolves shall o'er my carcase growl, Or buzzards pick my bones. No fellow-man shall learn my fate, Or where my ashes lie; Unless by beasts drawn round their bait, Or by the ravens' cry. Yes! I've resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it: This heart I'll rush a dagger through Though I in hell should rue it! Often

being stubborn is not a bad thing, it shows determination.

insistence that

The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but some part of her, as she observed with a certain dazed detachment, was too pigheaded to give up. No,she would plod on likely to the ends of the earth, slipping and sliding, gasping and groaning, until either the river won or she did.Had she been inclined to wager, she would have bet on the river.

Now all white Southern women keep as a weapon against uncouth world a certain smile that can be whipped out of storage and tacked up, in an instant, covering over a multitude of too-candid moments. My mother's face, whose upturned mouth never moved, registered confusion, then fear-then landed where I expected that steely doggedly cheerful resolve of a smile.

Stubbornness is one of my few virtues.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Lo peor fue el miedo que sintió durante los tres pasos hacia adelante. El plomo en el estómago que cargas en la distancia entre lo que te impulsa y o que temes.

Louis: You have to be willing to say, "Let's not do this show. Let's not do it.

With failure, you just try again.

Dougless gritted her teeth.

So you're saying that you wouldn't have

I am all or nothing

There was no room to ask whether he could do it or not. He had to.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

A félelem ellen harcolni kell, elszántan és cselekv?n. És amikor szembeszáll vele, tapasztalni fogja, hogy meglep?en gyönge ellenfél.

Are you running away?" "No, not today.

The secret was to let the monster bearing down on you know that you had a path and you were sticking to it. The secret was to take your time.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing? Until we have some systematic way of understanding this, we and the way we act are mysterious to ourselves.

Emotions are not blind, non-rational forces which can overcome rational resolve; they are themselves a kind of reason which the person determines to act on.