RESOLUTION

Related Subjects: Courage, Decision, Earnestness, Fickleness, Firmness, Hesitation, Obstinacy, Perseverance, Zeal

1. I have aimed to assure them that knowledge can be obtained under difficulties; that poverty may give place to competency, that obscurity is not an absolute bar to distinction, and that a way is open to welfare and happiness to all who will resolutely and wisely pursue that way.—FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Autobiography
   

2. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.—JONATHAN EDWARDS, Seventy Resolutions
   

3. Bold resolution is the favourite of Providence.—Proverb
   

4. In things that must be, it is good to be resolute.—Proverb
   

5. He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent.—Proverb
   

6. Never tell your resolution beforehand.—JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
   

7. I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

8. When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one to a fellow-creature.—SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland's Memoir