Quotes About Resolve

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

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

He turned then to go on—and stopped dead in his tracks. Suddenly he had never felt so good and so foolish in his life. You God damned fool, he said to himself; if you've got enough curiosity and interest to know what's in that book, then what the hell are you running away from?

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.

come on, you" (last words from flight 128)

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?" "Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction!

May I ask a question, Lucy?" "Go right ahead!" "Just why do you want to draw this line all the way around the world?" "Well, you know the old saying, Charlie Brown... You have to draw the line someplace!

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

Yes, but that was the way she wanted to do it. And furthermore she didn't want him going out there with her now. Three exclamation marks appeared over Norwood's head. No, her mind was made up.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

I always try to deal justly with everyone," she once said. "But if anyone wants to fight me I'll give him all the fight he wants.

First priority becomes first action.

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

We were ordinary men called upon to execute a dangerous mission whose outcome was far from certain. The only thing that was certain at that point was that the aggressor would not surrender.

There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

If I have anything at all I am still the Hero. I am here. This was my story. This is my problem. I'm going back down there to fix it.

Insisten?a e calea spre a ob?ine ce vrei.

men don't allow themselves to be killed for their interest, they allow themselves to be killed for their passion

Why did you come here?' Gretchen asked. 'To kill you,' Archie said. 'How badly do you want it?' 'Pretty badly,' Archie said.

Wanting to leave is enough.