Quotes About Resolve

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

The verb 'to install' is spelt thus, but 'to reinstal' with a single /. Such anomalies were his to resolve. His failure to do so has proved lasting: it is thanks to Johnson that the opposite of ''moveable' is commonly written 'immovable', and thanks to him, too, that one person can 'deign' to do what another 'disdains' to do. Of

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

He would have finished Goddam off then and there, but pity stayed his hand. 'It's a pity I've run out of bullets,' he thought.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.

I've said it before and I say it again: "A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.

There's a great feeling when you're totally resolved. When you make the jump from being lonely to being only. When you're so totally alone and absolute.

A man drove himself insane He was driven Insane At least he was driven I don't know about you But it sure seems better Than just sitting around talking about it

You're going to do what you're going to do and that's all there is. That's all you got and that's that.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely.

If you want to be right, I can give you that satisfaction. You're in the right; but I'm going all the same.

Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!

To settle the matter in his own mind was one thing but to carry it out was another.

And should there be nothing left but to die?" he thought. "Well, if need be, I shall do it no worse than others.

The third escape is that of strength and energy. It consists in destroying life, when one has understood that it is an evil and an absurdity.

Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before.

During the first, in 1857, he forced himself to witness a public execution in Paris, and the sight shook him so deeply that he vowed he would never again serve any government.