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“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions”
Marcel Proust Quotes |
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“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”
Eric Zorn Quotes |
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“I wish that men were as resolute as women”
Anne Javouhey Quotes |
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“The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence”
Marie Edgeworth Quotes |
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“Videlicit,
That each man swore to do his best
To damn and perjure all the rest.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto II, l. 630)
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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.”
William Lloyd Garrison Quotes Source: Salutatory of the Liberator (vol. I, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1831)
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“I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.”
William Lloyd Garrison Quotes Source: Salutatory of the Liberator (vol. I, no. 1, Jan. 1, 1831)
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“Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 22)
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“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.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes Source: Twice-Told Tales--Fancy's Show Box
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“Hast thou attempted greatnesse?
Then go on;
Back-turning slackens resolution.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Regression Spoils Resolution
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“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.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. X, l. 257), (Bryant's translation)
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“Resolve, and thou art free.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. VI, In the Garden)
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“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?"”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Epigram
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“Never tell your resolution beforehand.”
John Selden Quotes Source: Table Talk--Wisdom
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“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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at V, i)
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“And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.”
Tobias George Smollett Quotes Source: Humphry Clinker--Ode to Leven Water
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”
Philip Sidney Quotes |
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“It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.”
Marcel Proust Quotes |
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“Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.”
John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes |
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“The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Resolve and thou art free.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
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Resolution Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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