Quotes About Resolve

Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

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.

quién de nosotros vive sin hacer ciertos sacrificios?

We can do it, whether it can be done or not.

when you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don't be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.

If I didn't have a ship to go after you, I'd buy one and chase you until I caught you.

Now it was too late. That could never happen. His future lay before him, one bleak stretch of unpleasant duty, to the end of his days.

I hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

I may say, without undue egotism, that when I make up my mind to do something, it is done quickly.

hope I number patience among my virtues, but shilly-shallying, when nothing is to be gained by delay, is not a virtue.

Now is the time for guts and guile

If ever there was a time to fight, this was it.

I am a monotheist. I am in it for life. I am in everything for life. If you don't stop me, I will not stop myself. I have the kind of faith that you can only have if you have talked your way out of trouble all along.

Thank God I didn't make the mistake of suggesting it to him, thought Cadfael devoutly. There's nothing the young hate and resent so much as to be urged to a good act, when they've already made the virtuous resolve on their own account.

God resolves all given time," said Cai philosophically and trudged away into darkness. And Cadfael returned along the path with the uncomfortable feeling that God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

There was even a trace of mild exhilaration in their attitude. At least, they had a clear-cut task ahead of them. The nine months of indecision, of speculation about what might happen, of aimless drifting with the pack were over. Now they simply had to get themselves out, however appallingly difficult that might be.

Then he laid the Bible in the snow and walked away.

Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.

Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Cleave never to the sunnier side of doubt.

My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.

Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.