Quotes About Resolve

Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Courage is action, not talk.

And being stubborn. "Why don't you just let me get up there?" I said, trying to

I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life. I'm not going to let Cousin Blake ruin my life.

Though I'd considered the idea of killing him a million times, once I made the decision to actually do it, I knew it had to be that night. It was sort of like that big public speaking engagement you're dreading, and you just want it to be over so you can stop worrying about it.

Die? Then so be it.

Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.

It was typical of Jim that, once sure of God's leading, he did not turn aside easily. The "leading" was to Ecuador, so every thought and action was bent in that direction. Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.

Now it is a war of days: on

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

I love him and therefore I want to protect him -- even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to skip any steps of preparation, or leave anything unresolved that might reemerge later to harm us -- to harm him.

We can do it, whether it can be done or not." Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a mater of discipline, really.

She also knew this: if she had to kill somebody in order to save her own life, she would do so unhesitatingly. Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died.

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.

Having read this far, Angela, you may be wondering how it was physically possible for us to drink more than we already did, but here is the thing about drinking: one can always drink more, if one is truly committed. It's just a matter of discipline, really.

What's the alternative? Yo quit whenever something gets challenging? To futz around your whole life, miserable and incomplete?