Quotes About Resolve

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

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

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

A hero is a man who does what he can.

In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions, but I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them and make them right.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

When I saw something that needed doing, I did it.

Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

The game isn't over until it's over.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.