Quotes About Resolve

I'll do my best.

When you aren't committed to the outcome of the game, there is no way you can win.

I understand—" I gasp. ". . . and you will not stand in my way." "I will not stand in your way," I parrot. It's all I can manage.

It was a terrible thing to undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. - The Tin Woodsman, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz pgs 72-73.

what shall we give her? Trot shook her head in despair. I've tried to think and I can't, she declared. It's the same way with me, said Dorothy. I know one thing that 'ud

during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her.

cut the beast's head clean

What shall we do now? asked Dorothy sadly. There is only one thing we can do, returned the Lion, and that is to go to the land of the Winkies, seek out the Wicked Witch, and destroy her. But suppose we cannot? said the girl. Then I shall never have courage, declared the Lion. And I shall never have brains, added the Scarecrow. And I shall never have a heart, spoke the Tin of Woodman. And I shall never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, said Dorothy, beginning to cry.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

She can push me away all she wants, she can burn me with those eyes, but right now, I'm not going anywhere.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

Pray to God, but row towards shore.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

You're not so tough. No tougher than the man whose blood will spill from your veins.

Live your life so that you'll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.

Giving up is losing.

And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?