Each week I post a virtue. Last week’s virtue was courage. This week’s virtue is resoluteness. Resoluteness is the quality of being firm in purpose. In the news for the past few weeks, we have seen the resoluteness of the family and friends of the Malaysia Airline MH370 passengers who have held out hope that their love ones would be found. We have also seen resoluteness of the searchers and the media who are trying to solve this mystery.
10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Resoluteness
1. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” –Theodore Roosevelt
2. “The truest wisdom is a resolute determination”.—Napoleon Bonaparte
3. “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
4. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.” –William Shakespeare
5. “The resolute determination [of Self-realization] is not formed in the minds of those who are attached to pleasure and power; and whose discernment is obscured by such [ritualistic] activities.”— Bhagavad Gita
6. “The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. He does not think beforehand that his words shall be sincere, nor that his acts shall be resolute; he simply abides in the right.”— Mencius
7. “We need to be tender and willing to show compassion for others, but also have the strength to confront situations that require resolute courage.”— Craig Williams
8. “Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.”—Miyamoto Musashi
9. “I’ve not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren’t possible.”—Mindy Grossman
10. “Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn’t want to go to bed when he’s tired. Being resolute is standing one’s ground even in the face of opposition. It’s a man’s virtue, not a toddler’s vice.” ― Minisinoo, Finding Himself
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