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Quotes About Resolve

We'll stay true to God only if our love becomes a decision.
~ Philip Yancey
He dithered but never dallied.
~ Philip Zaleski
We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.
~ Philippa Gregory
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
~ Philippa Gregory
Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou
~ Phillip C. McGraw
When you have something you would die to protect it ceases to be a matter of courage. Niobe explained, You just know what you have to do and you can't afford fear.
~ Piers Anthony
This is the truth of the matter, men of Athens: wherever a man has taken a position that he believes to be best, or has been placed by his commander, there he must I think remain and face danger, without a thought for death or anything else, rather than disgrace.
~ Plato
Courage in danger is half the battle.
~ Plautus
The tunes are few, a dozen, the same ones every day, morning and evening : marches to popular songs dear to every German. They lie engraved on our minds and will be the last thing in Lager that we shall forget : they are the voice of the Lager, the perceptible expression of its geometrical madness, of the resolution of others to annihilate us first as men in order to kill us more slowly afterwards.
~ Primo Levi
It's just that sometimes, he said, even when the right answer is smack in front of you, you got to reach deep inside yourself to act on it. You know what I'm sayin'?
~ Unknown
I resolved to stop using physical means to fight battles that require spiritual remedies, using instead the power of prayer to do what it's always been designed to do.
~ Priscilla Shirer
That's what the enemy wants. He wants you living in a state of defeat. Your defenses down. Your resolve weak and flimsy. Surrendering to an army of insecurities and misdiagnosis instead of courageously thriving in the sophisticated security of your identity in Christ.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Pugachov sonrió amargamente. —No, ya es tarde para arrepentirse. No habrá perdón para mí. Continuaré lo que he empezado. ¡Quién sabe! ¡A lo mejor lo consigo!
~ Unknown
After all, a man is only what he has decided to do, or not to do.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
Convince a man to take a single step—after all, what earthly difference could one step make?—and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.
~ R. Scott Bakker
It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
~ R. Scott Bakker
HAD TO KILL THEM I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE LUCY K I
~ R.L. Stine
Claire: So we do nothing? Michael: We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
~ Rachel Caine
And about Shane, I swear, if he doesn't snap out of it, I'm going to punch him in the face. Well, punch him in the face and then run like hell. - Eve Rosser
~ Rachel Caine
I'm not leaving," Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. "Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.
~ Rachel Caine
Where are you going?" "To get a Coke!" "Would you—" "No!
~ Rachel Caine
So we do nothing?" Claire asked. "We do the best nothing you've ever seen.
~ Rachel Caine
You come back to us or I swear, I'll find you, dig up your stinky corpse, and kick its ass until it freaking disintegrates.
~ Rachel Caine