Quotes about Resolve

Put legs to your prayers

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.

We will have no truce or parley with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.

It was typical of Jim that, once sure of God's leading, he did not turn aside easily. The "leading" was to Ecuador, so every thought and action was bent in that direction. Jim practiced what he preached when he wrote in his diary: "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do and die.