Resolve Quotes:

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Successful, World, Resolve, Outside World

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

- Aeschylus

topic: Resolve

There is no avoidance in delay.

- Aeschylus

topic: Delay, Resolve, Avoidance

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

- Albert Camus

topic: Thinking, Ends, Resolve

How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

- Arthur Phillips

source: Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

topic: Resolve

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Wine, Water, Resolve, Food And Wine

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Failing, Resolve, Moral Perfection, Dullness, Funny Exam

Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.

- Bob Goff

topic: Grace, Courageous, Resolve

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

- Charles Hodge

topic: Moral, Conformity, Resolve

To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.

- David Richo

topic: Adults, Conflict, Resolve

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Real, Real Life, Resolve

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Men, Heaven, Resolve

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: May, Resolve, Enigma, Ingenuity

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Wise, Patient, Resolve

A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.

- George Eliot

topic: Eye, Resolve, Betray

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

- George Eliot

topic: Achieve, Should, Resolve

A good resolve will make any port.

- Horace

topic: Adversity, Port, Resolve

keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.

- Howard Thurman

topic: Moments, Resolve

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

- John Dryden

topic: Resolve, Performances

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

- Joseph Brodsky

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

topic: Blame, Moments, Resolve

It is more rewarding to resolve a conflict than to dissolve a relationship.

- Josh McDowell

source: Josh McDowell, Ed Stewart (2000). “Resolving Conflict”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Conflict, Resolve

He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what he has before often repeated.

- Joshua Reynolds

topic: Mind, Imitation, Resolve

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Yield, Obstacles, Resolve

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

- Moses Mendelssohn

topic: Mean, Doubt, Resolve

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

- Owen Feltham

topic: Soul, Rust, Resolve, Negligence

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

- Ralph Waldo Trine

topic: Morning, Circumstances, Resolve, Self Help, Happiness Is A Choice

I don't know it's not really a conversation until it's a reality. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and when (Tinsley) comes back. It's a situation that we'll resolve when it comes time to resolve it.

- Rick Carlisle

topic: Reality, Conversation, Resolve

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

- Russ Feingold

source: "A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Mark Byrne, www.gq.com. February 20, 2012.

topic: Patriotic, President, Resolve

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Progress, Delay, Resolve, Deviate

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

topic: America, Vampire, Resolve

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

topic: Cat, Solitude, Resolve

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

- Susanna Centlivre

source: Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.357

topic: Courage, Resolve, Cheerfulness

The resolve to diet is most easily summoned on a full stomach.

- Terry Rossio

topic: Stomach, Resolve

I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.

- Thaksin Shinawatra

topic: Resolve, Resignation

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

- Toi Derricotte

topic: Jobs, Artist, Resolve

As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

- Tom Daschle

topic: People, September 11, Resolve, Cowardly Acts

Why can't the Arabs and Jews resolve their disagreements at the conference table like good Christians?

- Warren Austin

topic: Christian, Tables, Resolve

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

- William Blake

source: "Thoughts in Solitude". Book by Thomas Merton, 1958.

topic: Rise Above, Contradiction, Resolve

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

- William Feather

topic: Deeds, Resolve, Good Success, Personal Success, Formula For Success

Give me your resolve. Believe in Yuna.

- Yuna

topic: Believe, Giving, Resolve

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Ambition, Conflict, Resolve

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

- Austin O'Malley

topic: Charity, Notes, Resolve

We need to be stronger. We need to deter the Russians. We need to show resolve, which is why cooperating with them on the other hand can be more difficult.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: Stronger, Difficult, Resolve

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: People, Resolve

Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

- Ian Brown

source: Source: www.digitalspy.com

topic: Hurt, Resolve, Deeper

Afterthought makes the first resolve a liar.

- Sophocles

source: Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.35, University of Chicago Press

topic: Liars, Firsts, Resolve, Afterthought

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

topic: Mind, Resolve, Deliberate

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

- Stephen Jay Gould

topic: Causes, Riddle, Resolve

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

- Stonewall Jackson

topic: May, Resolve

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

- Albert Einstein

topic: Mind, Made, Resolve

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.4, Macmillan

topic: Loss, Resolution, Resolve

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Problem, Negotiation, Resolve

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Conquer, Resolution, Resolve

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

topic: God, Fear, Resolve, Indomitable, Indomitable Will

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.762, Xist Publishing

topic: Achieve, Should, Resolve

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

- Rajneesh

topic: Resolution, Restriction, Resolve

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

- John F. Kerry

topic: Needs, Resolve, Syria

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

- Darynda Jones

source: Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.36, Macmillan

topic: Milk, Resolve, Tact

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

- Martial

source: "Epigrams".

topic: Identity, Lasts, Resolve

My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

topic: Grief, Resolve

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

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

topic: Spirit, Action, Resolve

America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.

- Barack Obama

source: Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

topic: America, Bluster, Resolve

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

- Barbara Jordan

topic: Way, Resolve, Ifs

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

- Viggo Mortensen

source: "Sympathy for the devil". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.

topic: Real, Real Life, Resolve

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Circumstances, Resolve

Resolve that you will now lay aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “The Selected Teachings of Wallace D. Wattles”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

topic: Unity, Conscious, Resolve

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

- Saint Basil

topic: Treats, Resolve, Possession

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Salespeople, Resolve

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

source: Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

topic: Body, Resolve

Those who are unswerving have resolve

- Laozi

topic: Taoism, Resolve