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Quotes About Resolve

Kane stood ready, his sword forged of love, hope and prayer, in hand.
~ Steve Perry
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.
~ Steve Prefontaine
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.
~ Steve Prefontaine
Short version: it doesn't matter how many bad decisions you just made, your job is to make the next one correct.
~ Steven Brust
I have strong opinions about ambivalence.
~ Steven Brust
Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you've decided beforehand it can't be done.
~ Steven D. Levitt
I see no value in modest ambitions - Karsa Orlong
~ Steven Erikson
I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.
~ Steven Erikson
Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
~ Steven Erikson
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~ A. E. Housman
I wear my heart on my sleeve, if I want to do something, I go ahead and do it. I think I learnt that from my dad.
~ Angad Bedi
Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop.
~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
~ Roger Nash Baldwin
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
~ Sharon Olds
When I make a commitment to someone, it is for the smooth road and the rocky road.
~ Bob Casey, Jr.
I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.
~ Jimmy Iovine
I may be one of the most competitive people you ever know. I want to win every snap, every game, even though it was not possible... it really wasn't about the conquest, it was about the challenge.
~ Brian Urlacher
thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he'll have one. He turned to the messenger.
~ Michael Shaara
Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?
~ Michael Shaara
Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding onto.
~ Michael Stephen Fuchs
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?
~ Michel de Montaigne