Quotes about Resolve

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

When a plunge is to be made into the water, it's of no use lingering on the bank.

persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart a little more carefully, he would have found he could not resist. Such is the sleight of hand by which we juggle with ourselves, and change our very weaknesses into stanch and most magnanimous virtues!

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it.

When the heart says "yes" it is difficult for the mind to say "no.