Resolution Quotes

• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, New Year, Prayer

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• ...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

  Paul McCartney

  Birthday, Time, Fighting

  Song: We Can Work It Out

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• Let each new year find you a better person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

  Shel Silverstein

  War, Play, Hug

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

  Shel Silverstein

  War, Kissing, Winning

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

  Eric Zorn

  Funny, New Year, Honesty

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

  Thomas Hardy

  Evil, Impossible, Framed

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

  Marcel Proust

  Mind, Lasting Love, States

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• If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

  Scilla Elworthy

  War, Army, Government

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• Resolve to perform what you ought;
  perform without fail what you resolve.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Priorities, Advice, Failing

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.68

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• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

  Howard Baker

  Inspirational, Facts, Emotion

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• A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

  Edgar Guest

  New Year, Eye, Holiday

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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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• The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

  Hartley Coleridge

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

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• There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Differences, Wish, Three

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Opponents, Violence

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• We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Home, Community

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• More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have this understanding communicate it to policy-makers and more particularly, start implementing it in their own lives and localities, change will start to happen.

  Scilla Elworthy

  War, Long, Understanding

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• The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Alternatives, Conflict

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• I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

  Ted Danson

  Hands, People, Way

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• The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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