Quotes About Resolve

Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton. Go Ahead! Jouett, full speed! (the actual quote tha he made, that is paraphrased:

Damn the torpedoes, Drayton, go ahead! Jouett, full speed! (frequently erroreously quoted as 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead')

What was Audrey to do then but make peace with her reality. Or try.

he had a way of standing and looking into the distance like he really believed in something

ÄŒesÃ…Â¥ bojovníka spo?íva v jeho ochote staviÃ…Â¥ do hry vÅ¡etko. Jeho ve?kosÃ…Â¥ je priamo úmerná tomu, ako hlboko môže klesnúÃ…Â¥.

It's very nice to say 'And if you will it, it is no dream', But what if you stop willing? Or if there's no strength left in you to will anymore?

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

That I am ready to throw all of my books and papers into the fire, and resolve never more to renounce the pleasure of life for the sake of reasoning and philosophy.

I resolved to make a very rigid frugality supply my deficiency of fortune, to maintain unimpaired my independency, and to regard every object as contemptible except the improvement of my talents in literature.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

As Hitler quipped to his staff, Beck was only ever able to make up his mind when his decision was against doing something!)

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company's in trouble, and we have to help them. We're in reserve, so we have to go. And if we're shelled, we're shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Just make sure if you fail, you did what you wanted to do.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

1st January, 1872.—May the Almighty help me to finish my work this year for Christ's sake!

Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.