Quotes About Resolve

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don't you?

like a good idea at all, once he thought of it. He did it anyway, winding

Resolve can take many forms. It can flourish within a daily routine, a list prepared each night and answered each day. Or it can take a more organic form, a desire formed and kept in view, something to move toward as time and circumstance allow.

It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

But suddenly, he was firmly resolved about declining the UCLA alternative. A little while before, there had been a storm of controversy about Mickey Mantle and the kind of priority treatment he had received. DeForest suspected he was getting the celebrity treatment, that he might in effect take someone else's opportunity to live longer. In the end, he refused all treatment short of the medication designed to slow the growth of his cancer and the drugs for the pain.

It must be all or nothing. We cannot approach the situation halfway." After

I must walk right up to my last moment.

Warriors win battles, not by ignoring them, but through clarity.

A warrior has to believe, for belief is an essential part of his being.

Only those who come to the warrior's path prepared to die can possibly hope to succeed.