Resolution Quotes - Page 7

• Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

  Akhenaton

  Wise, New Year, Art

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  You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

  Mick Jagger

  Desire, Trying, Needs

  FaceBook post by Mick Jagger from Jun 15, 2012

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• If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Win Win, Dialogue

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

  James Lafferty

  New Year, Workout, Health

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• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Funny, Humor, Wind

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• New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.

  Jay Leno

  New Year, Holiday, Years

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Teamwork, Collaboration

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

  Alessandro Baricco

  Mind, Lasts, States

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• The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Forgiveness, Peace, Practice

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.36, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

  Aleister Crowley

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.139, Booklassic

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• For what I will, I will, and there an end.

  William Shakespeare

  Decision, Ends

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.96

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• I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

  Julia Ward Howe

  New Year, Writing, Thinking

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• Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

  Pierre Corneille

  Conquer, Resolve, Dies

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• Instead of making a resolution to learn how to code in 2013, you might make a resolution to learn how to draw.

  Auren Hoffman

  Might, Draws, Code

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• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

  David Hare

  Change, Weather, Littles

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• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Thinking, Religion

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 130

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• When people think, rightly or wrongly, that marriage is forever, they are stimulated to seek and find a resolution, a modus vivendi, whenever they quarrel.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Thinking, People, Forever

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

  Sydney Smith

  Morning, Form, Creatures

  Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.347

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• Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Mirrors, Use, Difficult Times

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• Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

  Kris Carr

  Ease, Embrace, Exhausting

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• Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Ego, Miscellaneous

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, New Year, Eye

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• I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Thinking, Trying

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• I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

  Rajneesh

  Restriction, Resolve, Miscellaneous

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