Resolve Quotes - Page 33

• I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

  Ronnie Wood

  Perspective, Cracks, Use

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• Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Book, Practice

  "The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life".

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• In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

  Vinoba Bhave

  World, Chance, Lord

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• These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Terror Attacks, America

  "Bush: U.S. feels 'quiet, unyielding anger" by Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes.

  Hun Sen

  Land, Groups, Politician

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• The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Prayer, Echoes, Answers

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• No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

  Ibn Hazm

  Mean, Anxiety, Doe

  Epistle on the to Apply to Souls Sect. 1

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• The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and ritual activities, or honors the completed stupa with an altruistic resolve to benefit all beings, then the blessings are such that the Buddha himself could not describe them.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Motivation, Blessing, Honor

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• Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Men, Law

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• The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Real, Writing

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• Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties”.- Helen Keller, American author, political activist, and lecturer
  “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

  New Year, Lying, Years

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• We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

  Robert Breault

  Fate, Effort, Tides

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• It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

  Alice Miller

  School, Confusion, Childhood

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Weather, Being Depressed

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Generosity, Giving

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

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• If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos.

  Teju Cole

  Waiting, Want, Might

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Blame, Moments

  "On Grief And Reason: Essays". Book by Joseph Brodsky, 1995.

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• I am a person who looks long-term, and I recognize the path we need to take. There will be moments when people are unhappy and disgruntled with some decision-making. Nonetheless, what matters most is to reach the destination. And my job as President is to see clearly where I want to go and be steadfast in my resolve to realize that vision

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, What Matters, Long

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• Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

  Herman Melville

  Often Is, Mind, Lasts

  Herman Melville (2016). “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, p.30, Herman Melville

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• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Action, Problem

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• The keen spirit
  Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
  Start into instant action, and at once
  Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  Hannah More

  Spirit, Action, Plans

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.338

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• If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

  Monty Oum

  Dream, Effort, May

  "Monty Oum: A Life Remembered" by Mateo Hurtado Statz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

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• The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Gentleman, Facts, Communism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a bit more careful next time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Men, Promise

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