Quotes About Resolve

It is not what you first think. There is no effort of will, no firm resolve in the face of this thing called living. There is only paying attention to the quiet each morning, while you hold your cup in the cool air & then that moment you choose to spread your love like a cloth upon the table & invite the whole day in again.

You do what you have to do. You make the tough choices, because no one else will.

When I see a nail, I reach for a hammer. They study the nail and obsess over whether it might actually be, or could possibly be turned into, a bolt or a screw, and then they try playing mind games. As often as not, the nail screws them.

I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.

Captain Bainbridge remarked, his resolve firm, "I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with tribute, unless I am authorized to deliver it from the mouth of our cannon.

I would die for my country. But I would rather kill for it. Ready your troops! We march!

when she contemplated marrying him—when she even contemplated sleeping with him—though some clear voice in her mind shouted "No!," she thought the voice could be overruled.

If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

She strengthened her will by saying "It is the Way.

If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

I feel one thing. I'm tired of running. I want to fight. No matter what, I want to fight.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.

When Peter sets his mind to a thing," Tanngnost thought, "far be it from reason to stop him.

Steady," Peter said, not losing a step. "Have to keep steady or all is lost.

Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.

He was strident in his writing, but never desperate. The tone let his officers and politicians know that the situation was critical, but that somehow a solution could be found. It was a tone he would maintain throughout the war, constantly preparing his correspondents for the worst, but hoping for the best.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

We are told here that we should make an irrevocable decision, come hell or high water, to stay with someone, not for the happiness or satisfactions it will bring, but just because (pp. 332–3/308).

If you want to go to the ball, go.

The attitude, "You can win if you want to badly enough," means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too "tough" to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.