| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant. |
| John Selden | Never tell your resolution beforehand. |
| Marcel Proust | It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 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. |
| Philip Sidney | Either I will find a way, or I will make one. |
| Robert Herrick | Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. |
| Thomas Gray | Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. |
| Tobias George Smollett | And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. |
| Homer | 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. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Resolve, and thou art free. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Resolve and thou art free. |
| James Russell Lowell | In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained, knowst thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy, do this deed for me?" |
| Oscar Wilde | Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. |
| Samuel Butler | Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. |
| William Shakespeare | 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 behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. |
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