Resolution Quotes

“Experience teacheth usThat resolution 's a sole help at need:And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,That we be bold in every enterprise:Then since there is no way, but fight or die,Be resolute, my lord, for victory.”

“All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.”

“For I am fresh of spirit, and resolvedTo meet all perils very constantly.”

“When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.”

“Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.”

“Put onThe dauntless spirit of resolution.”

“All is well ended, if the suit be won.”

“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”

“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”

“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”

“Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.”

“Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.”

“All's well if all ends well.”

“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.”

“I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.”

“Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.”

“The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.”

“Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.”

“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”

“But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.”

“The argument is at an end.”

“I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.”

“In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.”