Resolution Quotes
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“Resolve, and thou art free.”
“Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.”
“Never tell your resolution beforehand.”
“I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.”
“And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.”
“Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.”
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“I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
“Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.”
“Alas! we make
A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts.”
“In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.”
“You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. I cannot, never accomplished anything: I will try, has wrought wonders.”
“For when two
Join in the same adventure, one perceives
Before the other how they ought to act;
While one alone, however prompt, resolves
More tardily and with a weaker will.”
“In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"”
“What mockeries are our most firm resolves !
To will is ours, but not to execute.
We map our future like some unknown coast,
And say, "Here is an harbour, here a rock —
The one we will attain, the other shun :"
And we do neither.”
“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 behaviours from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.”