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• How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Men

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• Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupidity, Serious, Ass

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• A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

  William Ellery Channing

  Together, Bricks, Dignity

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

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• There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

  George F. Kennan

  Stubborn, World, Opinion

  "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.

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• From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

  Anna Dostoyevskaya

  Girl, Struggle, Character

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• When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Battle, Resistance

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.37

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• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  Patrick MacGill

  Night, Goal, Monsters

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.

  Gloria Copeland

  Sides, Determined, Dedicated

  FaceBook post by Gloria Copeland from Sep 01, 2015

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• You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Life, Proud, Now And Then

  "The Plays".

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

  Peter Medawar

  Principles, Done, Glory

  Peter Brian Medawar (1991). “The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Favour, Might

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.317

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• It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Government, Long Ago

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at dinner in honour of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 10, 1979.

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• People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

  Renata Adler

  Garden, Air, Dramatic

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Equality, Men, Enough

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1965). “The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letters, 1803-1818”

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• Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

  George Eliot

  Stories, May, Reputation

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6581, Delphi Classics

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• 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?"

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Time, Fate

  James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The poetical works”

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• If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

  Agnes Repplier

  Church, Sides, Demand

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ocean, Mean, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

  Winston Churchill

  Creativity, Acceptance, People

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• Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow; work with a stout heart and resolute will.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Work, Lying, Heart

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• On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Two, Communism

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.4, Regnery Publishing

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• Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

  Mao Zedong

  Sacrifice, Winning, Self

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