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Quotes About Resolve

I'll fight for Milan.
~ Krzysztof Piatek
As I said in the past, when I chose to come to AC Milan I knew I would go through good and bad times.
~ Leonardo Bonucci
My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks. This is a situation that I'm in and I'll handle it and I'll make it work.
~ Isaiah Thomas
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
~ Plutarch
'Never give in' was my mindset.
~ Arlen Specter
In the knowledge that nothing at all is certain and that nothing at all is perfect, we should, even with the greatest doubts, begin and continue whatever we have determined to do. If we give up each time even before we have started, we eventually find ourselves in desperation, and finally and ultimately we no longer get out of that desperation and are lost.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Ich erzähle dir das deshalb, damit du heute schon weißt, daß alles seinen Preis hat. Wenn du eines Tages endlich weißt, was du willst, dann wirst du auch konsequent sein müssen. Und du wirst eben nicht nur hart arbeiten müssen - das sowieso -, sondern du wirst auch deine Katzen ersäufen müssen. Und ich kenne keinen, der etwas gilt, der darum herumgekommen ist. Jeder von denen hat mal seine sechs Katzen ersäuft.
~ Thomas Brussig
Very well," said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.
~ Thomas Hardy
He resolved never again, by look or by sign, to interrupt the steady flow of this man's life.
~ Thomas Hardy
Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
~ Thomas Hardy
The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.
~ Thomas Hardy
the more emphatic the renunciation, the less absolute its character.
~ Thomas Hardy
For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form—that of absolute faith—is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.
~ Thomas Hardy
Was Bathsheba altogether blind to the obvious fact that the support of a lover's arms is not of a kind best calculated to assist a resolve to renounce him? Or was she sophistically sensible, with a thrill of pleasure, that by adopting this course for getting rid of him she was ensuring a meeting with him, at any rate, once more?
~ Thomas Hardy
You know what he said? Bloom said maybe he's trying to stop.
~ Thomas Harris
Qué me dice, Starling? —Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted?
~ Thomas Harris
But critics are a necessary part of our social system in America—they screen out those who lack the courage and resolve to take criticisms and triumph in spite of them.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
Appearances are much less important than the courage, discipline, and resolve of people who are economically productive.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
In matters of principal stand like a rock.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
~ Thomas Keneally
Much later, in terms uncharacteristic of jovial Herr Schindler, Cracow's favorite party guest, Zablocie's big spender, in terms, that is, which showed—behind the playboy facade—an implacable judge, Oskar would lay special weight on this day. "Beyond this day," he would claim, "no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
~ Thomas Keneally
Beyond this day," he would claim, "no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
~ Thomas Keneally
He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.
~ Thomas Keneally