Quotes About Resolve

there was a little too much of the best intentions going on

He] should come to the knowledge of the step, as a step taken, and not in the balance of suspense and doubt.

persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

He had no notion of meeting danger half-way. When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying, 'I wish' and start saying, 'I will'. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

I am constant to my purposes...

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...

Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't... Be a soldier to thy purpose.

...if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage and valour, this night show it...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but

We can try, but

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

You can't teach hungry, my dad always reminded me. Either you are or you aren't.

How dare you use Rachel to stop me?" he growled. "I'm using the truth, Master Bruce. Maybe it's time we all stopped trying to outsmart the truth, and just let it have its day.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.   I