Quotes About Resolve

Never give up, no matter what.

Resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

There is nothing that I so admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

How many times have we said, "I won't ever do that again!"? Then, before the day is up, we have the piece of cake, smoke the cigarettes, say hateful things to the ones we love, and so on. Then we compound the whole problem by angrily saying to ourselves, "Oh, you have no willpower, no discipline. You're just weak." This only adds to the load of guilt we already carry.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other." "And between the two is the lump in the throat,

When a woman commits to something she does it with both her heart and her head. Very powerful.

Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

There's a fine line between noble perseverance and insanity,

intensity, as though trying to place

Burn our ships.

God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep, But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!

Do what you will, only do something.

The man prepared to die will not be beaten cheaply.

Truth may resolve doubt, but it has never been an analgesic.

Must it be? It must be.

Not knowing, he said, is a thousand times more horrible than facing your fear.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

Seems indecisive, doesn't it? Either be a period or be a comma, but make up your mind.

Maybe it was because I wanted to control one part of me that had been uncontrollable, so the rest of me would fall into line.

wondered about what he said and then thought hard. I could never be a dick, not to Gretchen anyway, so I guess I was doomed; doomed to go for this girl that didn't go for me. But that was OK as I long as I did everything I could.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.

When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.