Resolve Quotes

“Cultivate resolve with daily practice. Maintaining your resolve to accept any outcome enables the courage to take any step.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Metaframe Adept

“We may lose battles
but we are stronger
and the only thing that can defeat us ultimately
is our willingness to accept defeat.

We cannot accept defeat.

I do not accept defeat.”
― Shellen Lubin

“You always were a perfect specimen of lethal resolve.”
― Kel Carpenter, Blessed be the Wicked

“It is your attitude, your choices, your habits, your companions, your values, your faith, your resolve, and your diligence that shape your future.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Pain and Greed are the drivers of hard work. Which is your calling?”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Something inside her relaxed at that, at the knowledge that this weird, amorphous thing in her wasn't one-sided, that he wanted her the way she wanted him.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“Some shoot for the stars. I shoot for the transdimensional multiverse. That’s me. I take things too far, too fast. I set my personal bar high. I didn’t come to try in this world. I came to conquer this world – and the next”
― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father's Gift For The World

“We all fall in the shit many times during our lives. The trick is pulling ourselves out again.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

“But then it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people; and you are such a great girl: I am far younger than you, and I could not bear it."

"Yet it would be your duty to bear it if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what is your fate to be required to bear.”
― Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre

“He saw the gratitude in their eyes and felt a measure of gladness for them ... but their gratitude did little to heal his own horror. In fact, there was something in their gratitude which made him want to hate them. Would he never be able to express his own terror, lest the fragile welds that made them into one thing should let go? And even to think such a thing wasn't really fair, was it? Because in some measure at least he was using them - using his friends, risking their lives - to settle the score for his dead brother. And was even that the bottom? No, because George was dead, and if revenge could be exacted at all, Bill suspected it could only be exacted on behalf of the living. And what did that make him? A selfish little shit waving a tin sword and trying to make himself look like King Arthur?
'Oh Christ', he groaned to himself, 'if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up.'
His resolve was still strong, but it was a bitter resolve. Bitter.”
― Stephen King, IT

“Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the walking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“I thought I had done my best ... but after a little reflection I determined ... to whether the storm - adversity is a good school ... I resolved to be patient - to command my feelings and take what came”
― Charlotte Brontë

“The important point is to resolve matters as fast and efficiently as possible, with the least distress or impact to yourself.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“Transformation in any aspect of our life will never happen if we do not resolve to think, act and behave differently; that actually is an inner true change that manifests outwardly and can never be faked.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Without perseverance, our resolve crumbles at the first encounter with adversity, allowing distractions to veer us off course. To strengthen our perseverance is to forge an invincible spirit, undeterred by the seductive calls of distractions.”
― Kevin L. Michel, The Power of the Present: A Stoic's Guide to Unyielding Focus

“There are times when a man has to forget his chivalry and talk turkey to the other sex. His ancestor, Sieur Pharamond, had realized this when, returning home from the Crusades rather earlier than had been expected, he found his wife in her boudoir singing close harmony with three troubadours.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

“Sensitivity and resolve are opposites. You need good negotiation skills to retain both.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Getting caught in the crosshairs of criticism, resentment, and misunderstanding is a natural part of the work. You rally the troops and brace yourself for the onslaught. You move forward, implementing compensation directives. Your personal resolve is reinforced by the knowledge that you have been selected to the do the job—and you are in the right.”
― Kenneth R. Feinberg, What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11

“I have this fear that if I ever believe that others wield power over my destiny, that I am so vulnerable, I might as well abdicate control of my life. For if I accept that, what is to stop me attributing to others all the setbacks I encounter? And once that happens, why would I do anything to get back on my own two feet? I would be virtually saying that it was beyond me to reclaim myself. I would be accepting absolute lack of control. And the Good Lord knows, I had very little control over my life as it was.

This fear, this need to go on believing I am in the driver's seat, may be the one ingredient in my make-up I will not find it easy to relinquish.

Therefore, with everything that I cherished taken, broken or out of reach, I resolved I would become self-sufficient. I would work hard. I would study. I would pull myself up by my bootstraps. Yes, even though I had still to acquire the boots.”
― Sindiwe Magona, Forced to Grow

“Everyone has a dream, but those whose dreams become reality lies in determination.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Be the first when no one comes, be the last when all are gone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“How to combat fear is solely what the mind can achieve, for fear is a condition of the mind, so it's best to tackle and resolve fear by mental capacity.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“There isn't anything that will be completely unmanageable, there are always solutions to whatever there is a desire to resolve if a persistent effort is made to eradicate any troublesome issues being faced.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“I made it through those days
And no magic paintbrush
Could paint me away.”
― Lowrey E. Gray, Wilding of this Hagstone Heart

“Never delay until tomorrow what you can resolve indefinitely today”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“The ideals of manliness found in these places in the Mediterranean seem to have three moral imperatives: first, impregnating one's wife; second, provisioning dependents; third, protecting the family. These criteria demand assertiveness and resolve. All must be performed relentlessly in the loyal service of the "collective identities" of the self.”
― David D. Gilmore, Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

“Where we are strongest
it is the easiest
to stay open, fluid--
curtains of lace and linen instead of
walls of steel--
open borders
(at least for those with passports and visas
or the will to earn citizenship
in our personal territory),
never losing clarity,
because that is where we are strong.

Where our resolve is weakest
is where we have to draw the hardest lines
for ourselves,
for others,
for the world.
We can't afford to give a little,
because, well, our resolve is too likely to give way
when so tested.

It sounds so simple.
But it can be so hard
to do.

Where we are weak,
the hard lines must be drawn strong.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Stand on what you've built.”
― Maria Brito, How Creativity Rules the World: The Art and Business of Turning Your Ideas into Gold

“I needed action, not words”
― Duncan Ralston, Where the Monsters Live