Quotes About Resolutions

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives

Our furthest-reaching resolutions are always made in a short-lived state of mind. I could barely conceive that the strange substance inhering in Gilberte, and radiating from her parents and the house where she lived, making me feel indifferent to everything else, could detach itself from her person and migrate into another.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

This 2016 my resolution is to complete the resolution of 2015 that I should have completed in 2014.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

The start of your day should be filled with hope for new opportunities, positive energy for resolutions and the excitement of what lies ahead.

As we reflect on the value of resolving to do better, let us determine to discipline ourselves to carefully select the resolutions we make, to consider the purpose for making them, and finally to make commitments for keeping them and not letting any obstacle stop us. Let us remind ourselves at the beginning of each day that we can keep a resolution just for that day.

They reminded us that the freedom struggle was not merely a question of making speeches, holding meetings, passing resolutions, and sending deputations, but of meticulous organization, militant action, and, above all, the willingness to suffer and sacrifice.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.