Quotes about Resolve

There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that

See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

The status was of a young man with a tall, gaunt body and an angular face. He held his head as if he faced a challenge and found joy in his capacity to meet it. All that Dagny wanted of life was contained in the desire to hold her head as he did.