Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters."
Resolution quotes
Resolution
116 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge."
Nelson Mandela
Political Leader
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved To meet all perils very constantly."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."
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"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions."
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"I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'"
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"Put on The dauntless spirit of resolution."
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"Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution."
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"You got your resolutions... We just got reservations."
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"When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature."
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"There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late"
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"There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley"
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"I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution."
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"Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste."
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"A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated."
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"For what I will, I will, and there an end."
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"But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty."
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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
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"Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution."
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"For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will."
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"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
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"Who is so firm that can't be seduced?"
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"Resolutions require only words. Results take action."
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"My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution."
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