Quotes About Resolve

I resolved to try to steer clear of politics. That wasn't easy.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

It's a blessing and a curse. I feel like I've gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

Prudent, considerate, careful, determined, honest, and inflexible:

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.

Or is it the other way around—are they supposed to serve us? Let us resolve to ask that far-reaching question again: For whom does America exist? This time around, there can be only one possible answer.

to square all these circles?

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.

Which takes more courage: to rigidly and inflexibly defend a principle, or to demonstrate a sense of perspective and willingness to compromise or walk away from a senseless argument?

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

In retrospect I am beginning to think of him as an Atlas who lacked muscle tone but who God damn well decided he was going to hold up the world anyway.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.

To truly feel like we're fighting terrorism, we need as much intelligence and infiltration as possible into known rivals of democracy. Once that information is collected, a sincere commitment must be made to thwart their effects through unified/joint military resolve.

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.… But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.

the only way to resolve these debates in terms of policy choices is to move them from the realm of research to the arena of politics and democratic choice. If democracy is to mean anything at all, then experts and laypeople have to solve complicated problems together.

Easy," he muttered under his breath. "Save the foolish heroics for the 'all-else-fails' part of the program.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Resolution is our inherent character, and courage hath never yet forsaken us. Wherefore, what is it that we want? Why is it that we hesitate?

These are the times that try men's souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country, but he that stands if now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.