Quotes About Resolve

You have to have drive and commitment - as well as an honest sense of what is and isn't possible.

I give it everything. On time. Every time. Might not always be good enough, but it's always my very best shot.

Marcus, the body can take damn near anything. It's the mind that needs training. The question that guy was being asked involved mental strength. Can you handle such injustice? Can you cope with that kind of unfairness, that much of a setback? And still come back with your jaw set, still determined, swearing to God you will never quit? That's what we're looking for.

You can't stop the future. All you can do is pick a side.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Which was the braver, the one who left, or the one who stayed?

Things do not happen, we must make them happen

T)he motive consecrates the deed.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

enough to spark a little of her accustomed fight.

If you lead a country like Britain… you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher

Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

Jolly sensible of you. There always is a moment when one makes up one's mind about these things, and then it's much tidier to act at once.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle.

I had vowed it before, but vows are but a paper study for a monument in stone, to be carved out with much sweat, perhaps not without injury, before the thing stands to be admired.

I therefore had only enough fear to make myself terrified — not enough to turn back

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Nearly two decades later, I can say that the only thing that allowed me to take that leap was because a deeper, wiser part of me believed that somehow I'd be able to figure it out.

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown