Quotes About Resolve

And I'm the type of person, if I ain't wrong, I'm gonna stand on that.

No choice is the wrong choice as long as you make a choice. The only wrong choice is choosing not to make one.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.

The mark of a bad leader is not to make the wrong decision. It is to make no decision at all.

There's no wrong time to make the right decision.

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

No matter how many fights I got into, I was always the victor. I didn't like it, though. I remember being 12 years old, and I looked in the sky, and I said, 'God, I don't want to fight no more. I'm tired of fighting. I know what I want to do in my life, and fighting's not going to get me there.'

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

In all my life, I've been trained that when there's a big problem, you run toward it.

Really, anyone in the business who transitions into directing as a writer or editor or an actor or a cinematographer, at some point you have to kind of take a leap and say, 'I'm committed to this.'

All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.

But I just want ya to take care of one thing. Never make choices from the weakest part of you. Cuz you'll regret it for the rest of your days. But if you act outta the strongest part of yer soul, then no one can stop you! You hear me child? And you'll never, ever regret it!

You take your reader to the cliff's edge. There you hang your hero by his fingertips. You are not to behave like a compassionate human being. You are not a rescuer. Your job is to avoid rescuing the hero as long as possible. You leave him hanging.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

There is nothing in this world which a resolute man, who exerts himself, cannot attain.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

I won't let him retreat from me. We've come too far. I'll fight for us even if it's him I have to fight.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything.

So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that our present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do the better job, to lengthen our stride.

Develop discipline of self so that...you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.