# Resolution

Resolution is the state of being resolute, having a strong will, determination.

## Quotes

* Videlicit, That each man swore to do his best To damn and perjure all the rest.
** Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 630.
* I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD.
** William Lloyd Garrison, Salutatory of the Liberator, Volume I. No. 1. (1 January 1831).
* I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
** William Lloyd Garrison, Salutatory of the Liberator, Volume I. No. 1. (1 January 1831).
* Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.
** Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 22, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668-69.
* You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. I cannot, never accomplished anything: I will try, has wrought wonders.
** Joel Hawes, as quoted in "Thoughts on the Business of Life" at forbes.com.
* In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.
** Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales (1842), Fancy's Show Box.
* Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
** Robert Herrick, Regression Spoils Resolution, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668-69.
* For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.
** Homer, The Iliad, Book X, line 257, Bryant's translation.
* Alas! we make A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves Look down upon our slumbering acts.
** Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Venetian Bracelet (1829) 'A History of the Lyre'
* What mockeries are our most firm resolves ! To will is ours, but not to execute. We map our future like some unknown coast, And say, "Here is an harbour, here a rock — The one we will attain, the other shun :" And we do neither.
** Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) (1838), Vol. I Chapter 13
* Resolve, and thou art free.
** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Masque of Pandora (1875), Part VI : In the Garden.
* In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"
** James Russell Lowell, Epigram, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668-69.
* Never tell your resolution beforehand.
** John Selden, Table Talk, Wisdom, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668-69.
* Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner and outface the brow Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviours from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
** William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act V, scene 1, line 48.
* And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.
** Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, Ode to Leven Water, as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668-69.