Resolute Action Quotes

If you must use your hands, use them with all the strength you possess... If you choose to strike, by all means strike hard.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itself. All three stages are governed by the will. The will is rooted in character, and for the man of action character is of more critical importance than intellect. Intellect without will is worthless, will without intellect is dangerous.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

In our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

Here I stand; I can do no other.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

Let the undivided voice of the South go forth ... declaring our determination to resist even to civil war

The educated classes are possessed by the idea that in the social domain anything can be accomplished if only one applies enough force and is sufficiently resolute.

History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.

Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.