Quotes About Resolve

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.