Resolution Quotes

New year revolutions.

Resolutions need routine.

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Resolution success is measured in progress, not perfection.

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Leonardo da Vinci

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years.

Henry Moore

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effect.

Shakespeare

He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself.

Goethe

Resolve to be thyself, and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Last year's resolution was to lose 10 kilos by Christmas. Only 20 kilos to go.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.

Abraham Lincoln

I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.

Angela Duckworth

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

John Burroughs

Resolutions: So many will fail; not because they didn’t set goals, but because they didn’t set behaviors.

Steve Maraboli

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Benjamin Franklin

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Cavett Robert

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

Benjamin Franklin

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Bunker Hunt

It is your attitude, your choices, your habits, your companions, your values, your faith, your resolve, and your diligence that shape your future.

Richelle E Goodrich

It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them.

Antoine François Prévost

Via ordinanda, Biblia Leganda, Theologiae opera danda, Serviendum et laetandum. That is: to order my life, to read the bible, to study theology, to serve God with gladness.

Every man naturally persuades himself he can keep his resolutions; nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Jane Austen

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savour of omnipotence.

Samuel Smiles

Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity. Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better - not reasons to quit.

Angela Duckworth

Head heart hands. I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living, for my club, my community, my country, and my world.

4 H Club

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Seneca

Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future. "I have a feeling tomorrow will be better" is different from "I resolve to make tomorrow better.”

Angela Duckworth

I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving; having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming schemes of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short.

Samuel Johnson

It's remarkable how uncomplicated it is most of the time. The hard part is not knowing what to do, but having the resolve to do it. What is one thing you know you should do right now and you just need to step up and do it?

James Clear

Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease.

Lydia M Child

Prompted by an innate desire to acquire a thorough knowledge of the birds of this happy country, I formed the resolution, immediately on my landing, to spend, if not all my time in that study, at least all that portion generally called leisure, and to draw each individual of its natural size and coloring.

Audibon

To resolve, again, to improve at what matters, and has mattered, and will matter, most to us; to hold ourselves to as high a standard as possible, so that we will improve through our partial failures; and to be ready, waiting, and asking, for opportunity, so that through our work we can find ways of testing, and proving, our resolution..

Henry Oliver

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

G K Chesterton

These girls were anxious to be good, and made many excellent resolutions, but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If we only had this,' or 'if we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many pleasant things they actually could do; so they asked an old woman what spell they could use to make them happy, and she said, "When you feel discontented, think over your blessings, and be grateful.

Louisa May Alcott

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate… at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won't give up, shut up, let up, or slow up.

Robert Moorhead