Quotes About Resolve

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

The secret of victory is to find the point of maximum vulnerability and then strike. No matter your feelings. No matter how much you respect the enemy.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Because you think you have options, you never involve yourself deeply enough in one thing to do it thoroughly, and you never quite get what you want. Sometimes you need to run your ships aground, burn them, and leave yourself just one option: succeed or go down. Make the burning of your ships as real as possible—get rid of your safety net. Sometimes you have to become a little desperate to get anywhere.

Being more careful is not what we need; that is just a screen for our fear of conflict and of making a mistake. What we need is double the resolve—an intensification of confidence. That will serve as a counterbalance.

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.

I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.

I wouldn't care to shoot my own townsmen over a difference of opinion about politics. Keep 'em yourself if you think you need 'em; but I suggest you'll be better off to put 'em away where you can't get at 'em. The trouble with a pistol is that if you show it, you've got to use it, and once you use it you've committed yourself.

Brother, Cap said, he's a Pig-nut! Pig-nut? I asked. Pig-nut, Cap repeated. You can tell a man with brains he's wrong and he'll try to fix things up: but you take and tell a pig-nut he's wrong, and he'll spend the rest of his life trying to have something heavy fall on you when you ain't looking. - From Kennebunk born Pulitzer Prize winner Kenneth Roberts' 1933 novel Rabble in Arms.

consequence of the original act and helps unbundle the problem.

How would I behave if I really wanted these results?

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

You're not going to cry, are you? - I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.

You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.

You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

Emin olman?n tek yolu oraya geri dönmek.

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

You bet your Grannie's Panties I will.

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks," I said

I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.

It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.