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Quotes About Resolutions

Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing feared of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.
~ Jane Austen
I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.
~ Devon Werkheiser
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
~ Theodore Parker
One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.
~ John Oldham
Every year, I make it my goal to learn something new, but I never end up sticking to it.
~ Matt Leinart
Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.
~ Mazie Hirono
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That
~ Oscar Wilde
Les bonnes résolutions ne sont que d'inutiles efforts pour contrarier les lois scientifiques. Elles ont leur source dans notre vanité. Leur résultat est absolument nil. Elles nous donnent, de temps à autre, quelques-unes de ces riches et stériles émotions qui ne sont pas sans charme pour les âmes faibles. Voilà tout ce qu'on peut dire en leur faveur. Ce sont des chèques tirés sur une banque où l'on n'a pas de compte ouvert.
~ Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity.
~ Oscar Wilde
In this agony of mind, I made many vows and resolutions that if it would please God to spare my life in this one voyage, if ever I got once my foot upon dry land again, I would go directly home to my father, and never set it into a ship again while I lived; that I would take his advice, and never run myself into such miseries as these any more.
~ Daniel Defoe
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain
~ William James
Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things
~ Helen Fielding
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
~ Henry Moore
Each day he lugged a hunk of something precious over to his boredom and once or twice a week when he was granted the tiny grace of distance he perceived that he laboured as his fathers did on someone else's pyramid Thoughts of rebellion Thoughts of injustice New Year's resolutions The seduction of a woman All these he engraved numbly letter by letter Walther PPK-S Serial No. 115142 stolen from one slave by another
~ Leonard Cohen
New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
~ Sam Yagan
January is the best time of year for gym owners. You all come. It's great! And then, by Valentine's Day, you're not coming in anymore.
~ David Kirsch
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
~ Walter Bagehot