Quotes About Resolve

The end has to come from within.

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

The era of procrastination is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences,

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

O thou undaunted daughter of desires!

make an active decision

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.

Goddamn your bones, that is the first step.

I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it.

It depends on a person's ability to say nevertheless, to do one small thing that seems beyond them, and, for a moment, break the grip of time.

Nothing has more power than simple conviction.

The Japanese will not crack. They will not crack morally or psychologically or economically, even when eventual defeat stares them in the face. They will pull in their belts another notch, reduce their rations from a bowl to a half bowl of rice, and fight to the bitter end. Only by utter physical destruction or utter exhaustion of their men and materials can they be defeated. That is the difference between the Germans and the Japanese. That is what we are up against in fighting Japan.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.

Rose Bethe, who was then twenty-four, understood instantly. "My wife knew vaguely what we were talking about," says Bethe, "and on a walk in the mountains in Yosemite National Park she asked me to consider carefully whether I really wanted to continue to work on this.

Wisdom happily lives with mystery, doubt, and "unknowing," and in such living, ironically resolves that very mystery to some degree.

Reality, creation, nature itself, what I call the "the First Body of Christ," has no choice in the matter of necessary suffering. It lives the message without saying yes or no to it. It holds and resolves all the foundational forces, all the elementary principles and particles within itself—willingly it seems.

our fear of death is actually our fear of God. If we resolve one, we normally resolve the other. To totally resolve the God issue would be to totally resolve the death issue. And we have the full wherewithal to do just that! That wherewithal we call Trinity, which is saying that God is an outpouring in one direction. God is only for and never against.

people confuse power with will because so few of them have the foggiest idea what they want. Absent any knowledge, will remains impotent. A limp dick, as it were." She regarded him, eyebrow arched. "The lucky few who happen actually to know what they want are said to have will-power.

people are forever confusing will with power

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn't have a way to solve it?

You're not getting away from me. Never again.

The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.