Inner Resolve Quotes

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

In my experience, growing up in Brooklyn and all that, the real tough guys didn't act tough. They didn't talk tough. They were tough, you know? I think about these politicians who try to pose as tough guys - it makes me laugh.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.