Resolution Quotes - Page 2

• Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

  Karl Albrecht

  Conflict, Negotiation, Ends

  Karl Albrecht (1980). “Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills”, Prentice Hall

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• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

  John Marshall

  Yield, Return, Compromise

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• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Opponents, Violence

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• Resolve to perform what you ought;
  perform without fail what you resolve.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Priorities, Advice, Failing

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.68

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• More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.

  Scilla Elworthy

  War, Long, Understanding

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• The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gutters, Compromise, Middle

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• I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

  Catherine O'Hara

  Funny, New Year, Writing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Home, Heart

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Ties, Community

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

  Howard Baker

  Inspirational, Facts, Emotion

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• Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

  John Selden

  New Year, Happy New Year, New Years Resolution

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

  Andre Gide

  New Year, Holiday, Years

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiring, New Year, Inspiration

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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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  Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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• Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.10, Purdue University Press

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• Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Happy, God, New Year

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