firm resolve Quotes

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

My hand trembles but my heart does not.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I don't know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and that's a very disheartening feeling.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

Responsible men will not encourage the enemy to hold out in anticipation of a more generous settlement. Responsible men will recognize that we can have only one President at a time.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

I don't back down for anybody.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it.

I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.