Quotes About Resolve

There's no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won't say that if you refuse me you'll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.

The will, I believe, is the mystery of mysteries. Who can say beforehand that his will is strong? There are all kinds of indefinable currents moving to and fro between one's will and one's inclinations. People talk as if the two things were essentially distinct; on different sides of one's organism, like the heart and the liver. I believe there is a certain group of circumstances possible for every man, in which his will is destined to snap like a dry twig.

Then again I shifted my eyes-I faced what I had to face.

I welcomed the consciousness that I was charged with much to do, and I caused it to be known as well that, left thus to myself, I was quite remarkably firm.

She hadn't given up yet, and the broken sentence, if she was the last word, would end with a sort of meaning.

We've played our dreadful game, and we've lost. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our feeling for ourselves and for each other, not to wait another day.

He had dropped on a sofa for dismay; but she seemed, as she stood over him, to have the last word. "Wasn't what you came out for to find out all?

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Acts are demanded, suicidal acts perhaps, but acts fraught with meaning.

Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.

Resolve, and thou art free.

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits Will lift thee to the level of themselves.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Here some one thrust these cards into these old hands of mine, swears that I must play them, and no others. And damn me, Ahab, but thou actest right, live in the game, and die in it.

for few men's courage is proof against protracted meditation unrelieved by action

conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.