Resolution Quotes

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. (Abraham Lincoln)
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. View quote
Thomas Hardy
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. View quote
Abba Eban
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. View quote
Wilkie Collins
In War Resolution. In Defeat Defiance. In Victory Magnanimity. In Peace Goodwill. View quote
Winston Churchill
No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February. (Suze Orman)
It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have. View quote
Susan Beth Pfeffer
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace. View quote
Eddie Bernice Johnson
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution. View quote
Vernon A. Walters
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind - my wayward heart creates its own misery - Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child - long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights. View quote
Samuel Alito
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States. View quote
John Adams
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former. (James Madison)
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom, or the enjoyment of present blessings, for visionary schemes of ideal perfection. It is the knowledge of the past, the actual infliction of the present, that has produced all changes, all innovations, and all improvements - not (as is pretended) the chimerical anticipation of possible advantages, but the intolerable pressure of long-established, notorious, aggravated, and growing abuses. View quote
William Hazlitt
The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons. View quote
Konstantin Chernenko
In your eyes, The light, the heat. In your eyes, I am complete. In your eyes, I see the doorway to a thousand churches. In your eyes, The resolution of all the fruitless searches.In your eyes, I see the light and the heat. In your eyes, Oh, I want to be that complete. I want to touch the light, the heat I see in your eyes. View quote
Peter Gabriel
Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. View quote
Peter DeFazio