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Resolution-Quote-of-the-Day
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People laugh at new year's resolutions.
But we could all use ten minutes in a chair followed by a humble prayer.--
Unknown
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions
in
favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.--Dean
Inge
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Good resolutions are
like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.--Charles
M. Sheldon
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One resolution I have
made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things.'--John
Burroughs
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Resolve not to be poor:
whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness;
it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable,
and others extremely difficult. --Samuel Johnson
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To make our way, we must have firm resolve,
persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way.
We can never let up. --Ralph Bunche
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Good resolutions are
simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.--Oscar
Wilde
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Resolve to be thyself:
and know, that he/ Who finds himself, loses his misery. --Matthew
Arnold
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If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic
decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved
to
do something bad. --Mary McCarthy
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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path
in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves
itself
into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.--Mahatma
Gandhi
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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
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He who resolves never
to ransack any mind but his own will be soon reduced to the poorest of
all imitations; he will be obliged to imitate himself, and to repeat what
he has before often repeated. --Joshua Reynolds
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Resolved, never to do
anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my
life. --Jonathan Edwards
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Let us resolve to be
masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without
giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. --John
F. Kennedy
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. . . the mere resolve not
to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the
quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. --John
Ruskin
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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow
diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity
or resolution, and from which the attention
is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. --Samuel
Johnson
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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing
element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art,
this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved.
All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect. --Henry
Moore
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The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight
in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit the scent was false,
the cheerful resolution to go back and begin
again - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for
others. --Frederic William Maitland
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0 what a happy soul am I!
Although I cannot see,
I am resolved that in this world/
Contented I will be.
--Fanny Crosby
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Unprovided with original learning, uninformed in
the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolve
--
to write a book. --Edward Gibbon
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Every human mind is a great slumbering power until
awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution
to
do. --Edgar F. Roberts
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A resolution to avoid
an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance
impossible. --Thomas Hardy
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Resolve to be tender
with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in life you will have been
all of these. --Dandy Lion
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Hasty resolutions are
of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. --William
Penn
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Here is the prime condition of success: Having begun
on one line, resolve to fight it out on that
line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery,
and know the most about it. --Andrew Carnegie
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The need to express oneself in writing springs from
a malajustment 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 describe it. --Andre Maurois
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution
to
succeed is more important than any one thing. --Abraham
Lincoln
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Resolve to perform what
you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.--"Stonewall"
Jackson
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'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old
and true saying. He who resolves upon doing
a thing, by that very resolution often scales
the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. --Samuel
Smiles
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Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields
to stern resolve. --Leonardo
da Vinci
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Wise to resolve, and
patient to perform. --Homer
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