#resolute

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#afghanistan #better #control #corruption #country

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#america #assured #best #chance #come

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #better things #courage #effort #energy

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

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

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

— Plutarch

#cause #consists #courage #fear #just

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

#intelligence #learning #obstacles #quest #resolute

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

— Carter Burwell

#bit #fact #forwards #i #like

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

#big enough #came #communism #conscious #enough

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

#chatter #discipline #education #feed #first

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

#am #believe #claim #echoes #i