Resolution Quotes

“Sacrifice demands the surrender of things we cherish above all else. Only out of the agony of those loses can a new resolution be born. An undying devotion to a cause greater than one’s self, and a moral duty to see a journey through to its absolute completion.”
― Emily Thorne

“As we did every New Year's Eve we made ridiculous resolutions that no one would keep, and quietly we all wondered what the coming year would hold, each of us praying for our own private miracles. Good health. Better health. A marriage for this child, a good job for another. This hopefulness was something hardwired into our psyches, that a new year might mean some monumental something wonderful could happen to bring us happiness at a level we had never known. A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be peace on earth for one entire day.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Be quick to resolve conflicts before they mature to become wars. The energetic crocodile was once a delicate egg!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
― Hyrum Smith

“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

“O Lord God! What plans do you have for me this year?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.”
― Stella Payton

“{The resolution of the surviving members of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whomRobert Ingersollwas the commander of, at his funeral quoted here}

Robert G. Ingersollis dead. The brave soldier, the unswerving patriot, the true friend, and the distinguished colonel of the old regiment of which we have the honor to be a remanent, sleeps his last sleep.

No word of ours, though written in flame, no chaplet that our hands can weave, no testimony that our personal knowledge can bring, will add anything to his fame.

The world honors him as the prince of orators in his generation, as its emancipator from manacles and dogmas; philosophy, for his aid in beating back the ghosts of superstition; and we, in addition to these, for our personal knowledge of him, as a man, a soldier, and a friend.

We know him as the general public did not.We knew him in the military camp, where he reigned an uncrowned king, ruling with that bright scepter of human benevolence which death alone could wrest from his hand.

We had the honor to obey, as we could, his calm but resolute commands at Shiloh, at Corinth, and at Lexington, knowing as we did, thathe would never command a man to go where he would not dare to lead the way.

We recognize only a small circle who could know more of his manliness and worth than we do. And to such we say: Look up, if you can, through natural tears; try to be as brave as he was, and try to remember --in the midst of grief which his greatest wish for life would have been to help you to bear -- thathehad no fear of death nor of anything beyond.”
― Herman E. Kittredge, Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation

“Agony's Plot

A zephyr skimmed
across my creamy skin
gently kissing
where the sun had been....”
― Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

“At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds”
― Dr. V. V. Rao

“Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Let go of your past. Start making history!”
― Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

“Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“{The final resolutions atRobert Ingersoll's funeral, quoted here}

Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws --Robert G. Ingersollhas gone to that repose which we call death.

We, his old friends and fellow-citizens, who have shared his friendship in the past, hereby manifest the respect due his memory.At a time when everything impelled him to conceal his opinions or to withhold their expression, when the highest honors of the state were his if he would but avoid discussion of the questions that relate to futurity, he avowed his belief;he did not bow his knee to superstition nor countenance a creed which his intellect dissented.

Casting aside all the things for which men most sigh -- political honor, the power to direct the futures of the state, riches and emoluments, the association of the worldly and the well- to-do --he stood forth and expressed his honest doubts, and he welcomed the ostracism that came with it, as a crown of glory, no less than did the martyrs of old.

Even this self-sacrifice has been accounted shame to him, saying that he was urged thereto by a desire for financial gain, when at the time he made his stand there was before him only the prospect of loss and the scorn of the public. We, therefore, who know what a struggle it was to cut loose from his old associations, and what it meant to him at that time, rejoice in his triumph and in the plaudits that came to him from thus boldly avowing his opinions, and we desire to record the fact that we feel that he was greater than a saint, greater than a mere hero -- he was a thoroughly honest man.

He was a believer, not in the narrow creed of a past barbarous age, but a true believer in all that men ought to hold sacred, the sanctity of the home, the purity of friendship, and the honesty of the individual. He was not afraid to advocate the fact that eternal truth was eternal justice; he was not afraid of the truth, nor to avow that he owed allegiance to it first of all, and he was willing to suffer shame and condemnation for its sake.

The laws of the universe were his bible; to do good, his religion, and he was true to his creed. We therefore commend his life, for he was the apostle of the fireside, the evangel of justice and love and charity and happiness.

We who knew him when he first began his struggle, his old neighbors and friends, rejoice at the testimony he has left us, and we commendhislife and efforts as worthy of emulation.”
― Herman E. Kittredge, Ingersoll: A Biographical Appreciation

“Many times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“ក្រៅពីបេះដូង អ្នកនយោបាយត្រូវមើលអោយឃើញថា ស្រុកមួយហ្នឹងត្រូវដោះស្រាយយ៉ាងម៉េច អោយបានច្បាស់លាស់”
― Khem Veasna

“Will is intention favored by emotions.”
― Raheel Farooq

“The trick with getting Windows 10 to work well on my 2011 Windows 7 laptop computer was to use a HDMI cable and plug it into a full High Definition (HD) 1920x1080 resolution computer monitor at 60Hz as the sole display.”
― Steven Magee

“Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my “999 (or Nick Leeson)” account.”
― Jon Edgell, Bust

“God gives a new grace for every new quest.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“A New Year brings new grace for new accomplishments.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Don’t make empty resolutions about this or that external little thing – make one huge resolution to give yourself to yourself. Then everything else will quite effortlessly fall into place.”
― Jay Woodman

“After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.”
― Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford

“The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation ofPhotoshop.”
― Andrew Durbin, Mature Themes

“If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“In the construction of one’s life, we define ourselves largely by the problems we engage and the debts we incur. The greater and more sophisticated the problems, the greater and more sophisticated the person. True resolution, or transcendence of endless dichotomy, is rare indeed. To truly make a debt vanish requires, in a way, a certain kind of magic. In all traditions, this is looked upon as one of the great mystical tricks. It is not forgotten, fixed, or hidden perfectly; it disappears. To have this occur, one must do more than simply forgive (another or oneself), although in action that’s an important step. One intuits the value of the problem as the birth of possibility.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You’re not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do.”
― Darrell Calkins, Re:

“Ileni swallowed hard.
"Yes," she said. "I am. But it's all going to be the same, for a very long time. The sorcerers will have all the power, and the assassins will eventually regather and start attacking again... and I haven't made any difference at all."
"Well," Evin said, "I think you've made quite a bit of difference to the people whose lives you saved. Speaking as one of them."
She stepped away from the edge, closer to him.
"Do you regret it?" he asked evenly.
His face was half-shadowed, but his eyes were bright and piercing. Not wide with pain and devoid of hope. She felt again his hand, limp and helpless in hers. Felt it tighten as Sorin plummeted past the gray rock.
"No," she said. And for at least that moment, it was entirely true.”
― Leah Cypess, Death Marked