Quotes About Resolve

At that moment, Kaladin knew he could kill, if he needed to. Some people—like a festering finger or a leg shattered beyond repair—just needed to be removed.

It was too late to change one's aim when the hammer was already falling. But it wasn't too late to straighten his back.

And yet, any who know me will realize that there was no chance I would give up so easily. Once I find something to investigate, I become dogged in my pursuit.

He felt an immediate spike of panic—which he shot in the head and dumped in a lake.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

I made this decision years ago, son. We have to fight the battles we have a chance of winning.

He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

You are worried I've started something dangerous," I said. "You're wrong. I'm not starting it, I'm finishing it.

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity—that was how to get stuff done.

Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

I will fight untill the end

I will go on until the end

Those who are weak don't fight. Those who are stronger might fight for an hour. Those who are stronger still might fight for many years. The strongest fight their whole life. They are the indispensable ones.

MAKE THE FIRST CUT "This step is not for the faint of heart. There is no going back. It is time to make the first cut. Are you sure you have made all the right choices? Are you pleased with your plan? Do not make your first cut until you are absolutely, positively sure." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Looking at death can be life-affirming. It doesn't need to mire us in thoughts of uselessness, nihilism, self-recrimination, and indifference to the future. Just a reminder that our days are numbered invites us to consider our blessings, strengthen our resolve to carry on, and escalate our compassion for all creatures, great and small.

Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.

Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?

Notwithstanding much cant and hypocrisy—chaff which I find it difficult to separate from my wheat, but for which I am as sorry as any man—I will breathe freely and stretch myself in this respect, it is such a relief to both the moral and physical system; and I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney.

as you are resolved to fall in battle if you can, so I am resolved as firmly to come to no hurt if I can help

El divagador encara un problema, pierde interés y lo abandona. El hombre capaz de concentrarse persevera hasta que lo resuelve.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.