Quotes about resolve

Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Winston S. Churchill -

It is not enough that we do our best sometimes we must do what is required.

Gregory Maguire - A Lion Among Men

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Susan C. Young -

Whether it is through products or services, being a problem solver builds loyalty and confidence. What can you resolve for yourself and others? Do you have a challenge that seems impossible or unsolvable? With the root word being “solve,” resolve is one of your best friends for overcoming obstacles and being a solution specialist.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 1 Peter 4:1

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.

Alfred Noyes - Collected Poems Complete

Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dreamIs laid upon thee, golden from the fire.Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleamThe black forge-hammers fall on thy desire.Demoniac giants round thee seem to loom.'Tis but the world-smiths heaving to and fro.Stand like a beaten anvil. Take the doomTheir ponderous weapons deal thee, blow on blow.Needful to truth as dew-fall to the flowerIs this wild wrath and this implacable scorn.For every pang, new beauty, and new power,Burning blood-red sha

Israelmore Ayivor - Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

Do not blame anyone if at last you don’t succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.

Ronald Reagan - the Cause of Freedom

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Never give up.This applies to more than goals and dreams, it is a maxim for basic daily struggles. It shapes one's life, including the will to continue to live. It supports love and committed relationships; it bolsters hope, faith, and charity; it is power in every area of existence. Never give up on anything or anyone of any worth, especially yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Tempter's Snare

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

Henry V. O'Neil - Live Echoes

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Don’t quit.When your latest efforts fail, don’t quit. When your performance is scoffed and ridiculed, don’t quit. When you’re told you have no talent, don’t quit. When you come in dead last, don’t quit. When it seems an uphill fight to keep going, don’t quit. When you can’t see any possible way to achieve your goals, don’t quit. When your last supporter is you alone, don’t quit. When discouragement and depression seem your constant companion, don’t quit. When you feel like quitting, don’t quit.T

Majid Kazmi -

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

Lisa Kogan -

I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.

Roopleen -

The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.

Sam Owen - 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it’s often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Aeschylus - Agamemnon

There is no avoidance in delay.

J.R.R. Tolkien -

I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best.

John Buchan -

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time

We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. "On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza -

In the end, history proved the Jews correct. Across time and place, memory lives on the tenacity of a people’s resolve never to forget—not just with words—but with an endless stream of concrete actions rushing every day, every hour, every minute, every second.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

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

Steven Redhead - The Solution

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

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.

Aprilynne Pike - Illusions

No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devestated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

Christian Baloga -

Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Celia McMahon - Skye

I begin to cry as my walls of my resolve break down. I don't know how long I can hold on. The pain is horrid and I curl into myself wrestling with a wish to die and a wish to live. Both have their perks. Only one will release me from this agony.

Gene Stratton-Porter - The Keeper of the Bees

He did not want to fail, when the Bee Master had trusted him with the home and the possessions and the occupation that were all he had of his very own, and he did not know that as the storm drew nearer, as the clouds grew blacker, as the heat waves resolved themselves into definite flashes of lightning, as the night closed down black as velvet around him, he did not realize that his moral and mental forces were rising with the tide of the storm, that all the remnants of manhood left in his shake

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

Richelle E. Goodrich - The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

There was another thing bigger than the tiredness – and this was the strong crew purpose.

Ken Scott -

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Mo Daviau - Every Anxious Wave

I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.

Rémy de Gourmont - : Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put back the hands, the other to advance them. Let us not too confidently try to play the part of the third person who wishes to set the first two aright; it may well happen that we are mistaken in turn. Besides, in our daily life, we have less need of certainty than of a certain approximation to certainty

Hannibal -

I will find a way -- or make one.

Sunday Adelaja -

More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son

R. N. Prasher -

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Cornell Woolrich - The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Jim Corbett - The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Kamil Ali - Profound Vers-A-Tales

SOLVE BY RESOLVE -Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment

Peter F. Drucker -

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.

Gary Rohrmayer -

Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up. 

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Don't give up.I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

Tim Fargo -

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr. - Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times

A crisis creates the opportunity to dip deep into the reservoirs of our very being, to rise to levels of confidence, strength, and resolve that otherwise we didn't think we possessed.

Felicia Day - You're Never Weird on the Internet

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Determined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win.

Sunday Adelaja -

God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.