Quotes About Resolve

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Patience is key, as long as you have a purpose.

I'm very dogged and patient.

I've made it clear - I'm not patient at all - several times.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Sometimes patience pays. That's what I always thought.

The answer is never violence. Rather, the answer, our answer, all our answer must be action. Calm, peaceful, collaborative and determined action.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

I will give 100 per cent and play with my life in every game. That's one of my main features as a player.

I've decided that whether I succeed or fail, I have to give it 100 per cent. That way, at least I know I tried.

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

If I do commit myself to something, I will commit myself 100 percent.

I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Perseverance is my motto!