Resolve, and thou art free. [ Longfellow ]
A good resolve will make any port. [ Horace ]
And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard. [ Smollett ]
Never tell your resolution before hand. [ John Selden ]
When resolution hath prepared the will;
It wants no helps to further any ill. [ Mirror for Magistrates ]
Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. [ Bunyan ]
For what I will, I will, and there an end. [ William Shakespeare ]
Bold Resolution is the favourite of Providence. [ Proverb ]
He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. [ Emerson ]
Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. [ Proverb ]
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. [ William Lloyd Garrison ]
Experience teacheth us that resolution is a sole help in need. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point. [ L'Estrange ]
The native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
Resolves perish into vacancy, that, if executed, might have been noble works. [ Henry Giles ]
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. [ Seneca ]
Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain. [ Chinese Proverb ]
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. [ F. Quarles ]
A just cause and a zealous defender make an imperious resolution cut off the tediousness of cautious discussions. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Resolution is the youngest and dearest daughter of Destiny, and may win from the fond mother almost any favor she chooses to ask. [ Lowell ]
Carried away by the irresistible influence which is always exercised over men's minds by a bold resolution in critical circumstances. [ Guizot ]
Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency. [ Johnson ]
A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]
A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who is calmest in storms, and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. [ Channing ]
The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. [ William Ellery Channing ]
How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]