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Quotes About Resolve

Never tire, never falter, and never fail.
~ George Walker Bush
I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.
~ Georges Bernanos
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
~ Georges Clemenceau
It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.
~ Georges Simenon
She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.
~ Georgette Heyer
It's the four Ds, Corvus. Dress. Discipline. And dealing death.
~ Geraint Jones
To say that you will exert your best efforts is little more than to say you will try. But you must begin to understand that — for you, forward of this moment — you do not have the luxury of merely trying at anything you undertake, and failure is not an option." "But
~ Gerald Everett Jones
lack drama. Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make drastic organizational changes to resolve the crises their poor management has created? Why not reward the programmers who design so well that they don't have dramatic errors, and managers whose organizations stay out of crisis mode? Organizing
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.
~ Geraldine Brooks
For if we could be allowed to see the Plague as a thing in Nature merely, we did not have to trouble about some grand celestial design that had to be completed before the disease would abate. We could simply work upon it as a farmer might toil to rid his field of unwanted tare, knowing that when we found the tools and the method and the resolve, we would free ourselves, no matter if we were a village full of sinners or a host of saints.
~ Geraldine Brooks
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.
~ Betty Friedan
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
~ William James
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
~ Cher
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~ John F. Kennedy
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
~ Helen Keller
Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
~ Ralph Waldo Trine
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
~ T. S. Eliot
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
~ Eric Hoffer
Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.
~ Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
~ Margot Asquith
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
~ Sallust
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other.
~ Anonymous