Resolution Quotes

521 quotes by 431 authors

In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnaminity In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill
When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can… — Bell Hooks
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition… — Jane Austen
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… — Jane Austen
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? — Wilkie Collins
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. — Michel de Montaigne
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner. — Lawrence Durrell
Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand back far enough… — Vera Nazarian
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to… — Jonathan Edwards
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them. — Ellen Hopkins
I have decided to leave Cleaâ€™s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms… — Lawrence Durrell
There is a fatality about good resolutions â€“ that they are always made too late — Oscar Wilde
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when… — William Wilberforce
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen. — Agatha Christie
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There… — Adam Smith
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false… — Dante Alighieri
Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a… — Robert Walser

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