Quotes About Resolution

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Do not hit, at all, if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

The once fashionable myth that crusaders were self-serving, disinherited, land-hungry younger sons must be discarded. Crusading was instead an activity that could bring spiritual and material rewards, but was in the first instance both an intimidating and extremely costly activity. Devotion inspired Europe to crusade, and in the long years to come the First Crusaders proved time and again that their most powerful weapon was a shared sense of purpose and indestructible spiritual resolution.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Peace is not a luxury. Peace is a necessity.

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

When you fight someone, it's different. It's a lot of conflict that you can have. Once you fought somebody, that's it. There's not much to it anymore. You went in there, you settled it like men, one on one, and that's it. After that, I don't think there's really a point to kind of carry it with you, any of that negativity.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.

One cannot negotiate under fire.

I'm not big with negotiating.

Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

I have nothing against Vince Neil at all.

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.