Quotes About Resolve

This was my problem, and I had to solve it or live with the negative consequences. I chose to solve it.

So how does one prepare his or her heart for martyrdom?

his soul until he actually began to sweat blood.

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

He knew he would never let her down, but he also knew that he would not move until the time was right, no matter what pressures were brought to bear.

Remember, there's sacrifice invovled in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. Those who realize this are the fortunate ones. Those who know and can try. What more can a man as kfor than that?

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La misma energía que podría utilizarse para resolver el problema se disipa negando el problema, ocultando el problema y evitando el problema.

Thus it is I accept without much grumble their failings and my own: the abuse of my enemies, the lapses of my friends; the growing pains in both my legs, my goatly seizures, my errors of fact and judgement, my failures of resolve–all these and more, the ineluctable shortcomings of mortal studenthood.

They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. My God I'll never take another drink, said the first. My God I'll never go to another movie. How's that for commitment?

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

I'd rather bore a hole to the center of the earth with my tongue.

Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.

had a private account to settle with my conscience. I had funked the place in the foggy twilight, and it does not do to let a matter like that slide. A man's courage is like a horse that refuses a fence; you have got to take him by the head and cram him at it again. If you don't, he will funk worse next time. I hadn't enough courage to be able to take chances with it, though I was afraid of many things, the thing I feared most mortally was being afraid.

I see now that the wind must have veered to the south-east, and that my plan was leading me into the fastnesses of the hills; but I would have wandered for weeks sooner than disobey the word of the girl who sang in the rain.

In a tangle of duties a man must seize the solitary clear one... Buchan, John. Salute to Adventurers (p. 172). Kindle Edition.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

the corporate system that animates all the forces who would block the progress of a true pilgrim bound for the Celestial City. Vanity Fair is the City of Destruction, the world, dressed in its best party dress. It is the place where the most seductive attractions of the world take center stage in an attempt to steal our gaze, cool our resolve, and shake our confidence, which is to be in the God who is the maker and builder of the yet unseen city. 6.

Christian shook his head. "No, I will not. I have laid my hand to the plough and will not look back." (No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. – Luke 9:62)

Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

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