Quotes About Resolve

We made a promise we swore we'd always rememberNo retreat, baby, no surrender.

I see life for what it is now. That's why I know I must do this." He put the poison to his lips, and drank it down.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man. - Thomas Fuller

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!

There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do! They think me mad -- Starbuck does; but I'm demoniac, I am madness maddened! - Capt. Ahab.

I tell you, the sperm will stand no nonsense.

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, wheron my soul is grooved to run.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run

Deviarmi? Voi non potete deviarmi. La via del mio fermo proposito è segnata da rotaie di ferro per correre sulle quali il mio spirito è scanalato. Su precipizi senza fondo, attraverso i cuori infestati dalle montagne, sotto i letti dei torrenti, io mi precipito infallibilmente. Nessun ostacolo c'è, nessun gomito su questa mia strada di ferro!

to you, I have never known anything like it. But I have brains enough to know that a bed takes up a very small space in a house, and that you don't spend a marriage sleeping with a person but waking with her. It's the waking part with you that I will no longer endure, come hell or high water. I will not be driven on and on to that looming goal, a love nest in the suburbs. I WANT NO PART OF IT OR OF YOU, do you understand? If I had

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Heroes, be men; be what you were before; Or weigh the great occasion, and be more.

for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly.

Xanthus, you waste your breath by prophesying my destruction. I know well enough that I am doomed to perish here...Nevertheless, I am not going to stop until I have given the Trojans their bellyful of war.

Tú pasa adentro y no te turbes en tu ánimo, pues un hombre con arrojo resulta ser el mejor en toda acción, aunque llegue de otra tierra.

Aya?a kalkt?m.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.