Quotes About Resolve

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew…then it was too high.

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Sometimes life reaches that desperate point where the wrong thing to do has to be the right thing to do.

You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility. You could say: I will deal with this. You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.

He had died for his beliefs; chief among them was the very Hugglestonian one that bravery could replace armour, and that Klatchians would turn and run if you shouted loud enough.

And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her.

From then on, we knew there could never be a problem bigger than Mom's ability to solve it.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.

Did I have the courage to forge a path

It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

muscles burned and her knees ached, but she did not stop. She owed that much to him and would not abandon him a second

The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it.

When you begin to think of returning to your old life, flee, flee to the opposite direction. Or it will be very bad for all concerned. For then you will be divided, and then you will be of no use to anyone.

do not confuse what you hope to accomplish with your personal anger. It will only muddy things.

Tears must not fall on dead. Otherwise spirit not able to rest. Janna will be bound to earth by tears, and spirit will return again and again to owner of tears, until matter is resolved.

While the realm of no materiality was a precious fruit of meditation, it did not help resolve the fundamental problem of birth and death, nor did it liberate one from all suffering and anxiety. It did not lead to total liberation.

There is no solution to the problem of lack of commitment, for example, without a solution to the bigger problem—the problem that I can't see that I'm not committed.

If we have deep problems, it's because we are failing at the deepest part of the solution. And when we fail at this deepest level, we invite our own failure.

Some long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in A solution for every fool

You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.

If you will it, it's not a dream.

It was the first moment I chose courage over fear, and I have always made the same choice since.

Not this time.