Quotes about resolution

Oli Anderson - Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

Most arguments are about programming most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.

Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun

There are many secrets don’t try to resolve them all.

Dada Bhagwan -

If you deal obstinacy with obstinacy in this world resolution will not come. Simplicity against obstinacy will bring about resolution.

Benjamin Franklin -

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Mike Klepper -

When people come to a conclusion that is contrary to popular opinion, there’s a calm resolution to them, for they are experiencing a short burst of pride. They have just captured an intellectual territory, and they will hold that territory.

Addison Moore - Ethereal

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

Bamigboye Olurotimi -

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

André Gide - The Counterfeiters

When I was younger, I used to make resolutions, which I imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not going old.

Ryan Holiday - I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Sydney Smith -

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Erik Larson - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

Raheel Farooq -

Will is intention favored by emotions.

Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown at Oxford

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

John Adams -

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

Benjamin Disraeli -

I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.

William Lloyd Garrison -

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Ulysses S. Grant -

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

Martin Luther -

Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs I would enter.

John Selden -

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

Daniel Kahneman - Fast and Slow

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

Stella Payton -

The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater c

Al Lerner -

Loneliness Ends With Love

Julie Connor - Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

Let go of your past. Start making history!

Jeanette Winterson -

If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

Brian McGreevy - Hemlock Grove

...if you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

K. Farrell St. Germain - Then'diel's SONG: An Elven Grove Dark Fantasy

I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffering it is still worthy of my best efforts... and wishing it was otherwisedoes not make it so." Eiij'lam told the king.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Toba Beta -

If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.

Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim

A certain readiness to perish is not so very rare, but it is seldom that you meet men whose souls, steeled in the impenetrable armour of resolution, are ready to fight a losing battle to the last, the desire of peace waxes stronger as hope declines, till at last it conquers the very desire of life. Which of us here has not observed this, or maybe experienced something of that feeling in his own person - this extreme weariness of emotions, the vanity of effort, the yearning for rest?

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution.

Jamie George - Ordinary People

Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.

Emily Thorne -

Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one’s self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.

Stephen King -

Resolution demands a sacrifice.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Lodore

It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.

Pawan Mishra - Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.

Winston S. Churchill -

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.

Monica Hesse - Girl in the Blue Coat

I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.

Winston S. Churchill - The Second World War

In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.

Peter David - Sir Apropos of Nothing

The battered and pathetic thing that represented any claim to conscience I might have had turned away from me in disgust. Oddly, I couldn't blame it. I was disgusted myself. Disgusted at my weakness and my lack of resolution, at my refusal to see justice through in the name of the woman who had borne me.

Shannon L. Alder -

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

Richard Eyre - and Ownership

Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.

Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

I would like to propose that the reason our actions have been so manifestly unsuccessful in steering the world away from its present collision course is that we have not, generally speaking, been basing them on any true understanding.

Leah Cypess - Death Marked

Ileni swallowed hard. "Yes," she said. "I am. But it's all going to be the same, for a very long time. The sorcerers will have all the power, and the assassins will eventually regather and start attacking again... and I haven't made any difference at all.""Well," Evin said, "I think you've made quite a bit of difference to the people whose lives you saved. Speaking as one of them."She stepped away from the edge, closer to him. "Do you regret it?" he asked evenly.His face was half-shadowed, but h

Muse - Enigmatic Evolution

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Dada Bhagwan -

Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

Dada Bhagwan -

The worldly life just goes round and round; there is no end to it. If you want to bring an end to it, ask the Gnani Purush [The enlightened one], ‘How long do I have to keep on wandering? I have been going round and round like the ox running the millwheel. Tell the Gnani Purush ‘please bring about a resolution for me!

Dr. V. V. Rao -

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds

Shannon L. Alder -

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

Angelica Hopes - Music of a Soul

Shine in any season of your life!Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…means to SHINE!

Jane Austen - Emma

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.

Hyrum Smith -

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich -

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

Pablo -

This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!

L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on.

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - and the Masque of Pandora

Resolve, and thou art free.

Maxwell Maltz - The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Robert Woodruff Anderson - I Never Sang for My Father

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.