Quotes About Resolve

as Confucius says, "Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

what you can do is often a matter of what you will do.

but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.

You had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

But Elsie thought she could find it. She had heard that policemen, when politely addressed, or thumbscrewed by an investigation committee, will give up information and addresses.

Often it is not the wrong start but the wrong stop that makes the difference between success and failure.

Men don't fail; they give up trying.

trepidation.

Failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

Nothing happens until you decide.

The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.

Resolve that you will be the master and not the slave of circumstances.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

When I don't know whether to fight or not, I always fight.

We believe in a man in proportion to his immovableness from principle, the fixity of his faith in his mission. The man who is loosely attached to his life work, who can be easily turned aside from his life purpose, is not much of a man.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk through them.

Men succeed in proportion to the fixity of their vision and the invincibility of their purpose. If you can find out a man's quitting point, the place where he gives up, turns back, you can measure him pretty easily.

WILL-POWER. In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to do it. —W. Humboldt. It is firmness that makes the gods on our side. —Voltaire. Stand firm, don't flutter. —Franklin. People do not lack strength they lack will. —Victor Hugo.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Withholding a decision is a decision.

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.