Quotes About Resolve

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

He couldn't come all this way only to be defeated at the last by his own cowardice.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

So maybe you should try to find an answer for yourself instead of waiting around to see what Sam's going to do. Doing something is always easier than waiting.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Either do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either way

If there's a problem, there's a solution.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

When facing a challenge, employ language that empowers you rather than leaves you in a quandary – rather than ask, "what can I do?", ask yourself "what will I do?

When you encounter a problem, recognize that your solution likely is right alongside the problem itself.

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary Crowley

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. — ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest. — Mary

Life will test you to see how serious you are about achieving your objective.

One person with a commitment is worth more than 100 people who have only an interest.

Now, let's assume you have a goal in mind. The next question to ask yourself is, "Am I willing to do whatever it takes to achieve this goal?" If your answer is, "I'll do just about anything, except that I won't do _______," then frankly, you're not committed.

Boys do what they want to do, men do what they have to do."?Steve Williams

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose,