#resolute

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

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

— Plutarch

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ↗

— Eugene S. Wilson

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I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day