Resolution Quotes

• How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Courage, Faults, Enough

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Relationship, Peace, Money

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.615, Best Books on

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• You can't always get what you want.

  Mick Jagger

  Graduation, Encouraging, Trying

  "Song: 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'". 1969.

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• When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Compromise

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• Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Kings, Powerful

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

  Esther Peterson

  Taught, Compromise, Win Win

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• Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

  Samuel Johnson

  Perseverance, Writing, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.145

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• Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

  The Impressions of Theophrastus Such "A Man Surprised at His Own Originality" (1879)

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, Patriotic

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Communication, Mean, Ideas

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Respect, Communication, Caring

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• We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Peace, Powerful, Use

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Violence, Conflict, Environment

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• Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities - those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Fear, Anger

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• For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

  Bertrand Russell

  Equality, Thinking, Race

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• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Peace

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• You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

  Harriett Woods

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

  "The Last Word : A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, (p. 147), 1992.

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  World, Action, Conflict

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• I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

  Robert Clark

  Inspirational, New Year, Years

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• 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.

  Anthony Trollope

  Power, Years, Temptation

  'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 14

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