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Quotes About Resolve

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~ Napoleon Hill
Men do not fail, they stop trying.
~ Elihu Root
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
~ Polybius
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
~ Beverly Sills
Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
~ Winston Churchill
Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
People with good intentions never give up!
~ Jane Smiley
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.
~ Diane Glancy
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Never cut what you can untie.
~ Joseph Joubert
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.
~ Stanley Arnold
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.
~ Samuel Warren
The best way out of a problem is through it.
~ Anonymous
Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.
~ Robert Moses
To spur a willing horse.
~ Latin proverb
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
~ Jonathan Swift
So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.
~ Anonymous
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.
~ Ulysses S. Grant