Quotes About Resolve

His experience of the past two decades in foreign policy had also taught him that time often resolved the issues of the hour.

If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

When a smoker says he wants to quit but can't, what he's really saying is, "I want to quit but I want even more not to suffer the agony of withdrawal." To argue otherwise is to jettison any lingering notion of personal responsibility.

Sometimes you imagine something for so long, you find that you have no choice but to do it.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against ...

sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.

It stayed with him, like a part of him, like a birthmark, like a limb, it was on him, in him, him, his hymn: I had to do it for myself.

Dad used to say that sometimes you have to put your fears in order...

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to e the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...

We all choose things, and we all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against, but like Safran, and like you, I discover myself choosing this time and the next time what I am certain is good and correct, and against what I am certain is worthy. I choose that I will not, instead of that I will.

Die Ohnmacht des Einzelnen ist der Grund, aus dem alle es versuchen muessen

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Yo agonicé con él, yo morí con él, yo de algún modo me he perdido con él; por eso, fui implacable.

The hero is the man of self-achieved submission. But submission to what? That precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved.

No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.

It's all well and good to set reasonable goals, but when unreasonable goals are your only choice, you should always strive for them. Because it's not really a choice at all.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.