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Quotes About Resolve

The successful man is he who, when he sees that no further certainty is attainable, promptly decides on the most probable side, as if he were completely sure it was right.
~ Mark Rutherford
Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.
~ Tehyi Hsieh
Soon after a heart-wrung decision, something inevitably occurs to cast doubt on your choice. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves your decision.
~ R. I. Fitzhenry
When in doubt, do it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
~ Samuel Johnson
The British are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
~ Stephen Leacock
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
~ Cicero
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Put some in!
~ David Starr Jordan
If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
~ Chris Evert
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
~ Karen Horney
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
~ George Eliot
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
~ Phyllis Bottome
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
~ Marie Dressier
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
~ Norman MacEwan
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt
Here I stand. I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
~ Martin Luther
The die is cast.
~ Suetonius
Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
~ George Claude Lorimer
The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
~ Maria Edgeworth
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
~ Brendan Francis
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
~ Toni Cade Bambara