Resolution Quotes - Page 2

• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Ties, Community

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy of keeping America better at home as we grow more diverse - we have to build the minds and hearts to build this kind of world.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Home, Heart

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• Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Literature, Action

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.18

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• Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

  Karl Albrecht

  Conflict, Negotiation, Ends

  Karl Albrecht (1980). “Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills”, Prentice Hall

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• I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

  Catherine O'Hara

  Funny, New Year, Writing

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

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• People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Black And White, People, Gutters

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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• To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

  John Marshall

  Yield, Return, Compromise

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• The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Gutters, Compromise, Middle

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Conflict, Negotiation, Diplomacy

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• Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

  Goran Persson

  Inspirational, New Year, Time

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• Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Men, Negotiation

  Statement from prison, 10 Feb. 1985

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, New Year, New Beginnings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Henry Moore

  Inspirational, New Year, Educational

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• Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

  Max Lucado

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, New Year, Clever

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.138, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Blessing, Hands

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.245

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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

  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

  Bill Vaughan

  New Year, Fun, New Beginnings

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• The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Intelligent, Reality, Differences

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• If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

  Cyril Cusack

  Inspirational, New Year, Who I Am

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