resolution quotes

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

War settles nothing.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.