A Good Resolution Quotes

#1. As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

Andrew Weil

#2. But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

Wilkie Collins

#3. Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

Rowan Williams

#4. In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

Paul Dano

#5. Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Cavett Robert

#6. We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.

Barack Obama

#7. Required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.

Ted Conover

#8. I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be.

Elana K. Arnold

#9. A review of studies by physicians found that excessive exercise is bad for your heart. Another study says a daily serving of chocolate is actually good for your heart. That's got to make next year New Year's resolution easier to keep. I'm going to exercise less. Eat a little more chocolate.

Jay Leno

#10. All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount.

Samuel Smiles

#11. Resolution without routine is like a Ferrari without gas ... it might look real good but it will get you no where.

Steven Furtick

#12. The powers which enable evil to carry on are powers given it by goodness. All the things which enable a bad man to be effectively bad are in themselves good things - resolution, cleverness, good looks, existence itself.

C.S. Lewis

#13. He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare
the first requisite of a practitioner.

Lawrence Durrell

#14. Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.

Jamie George

#15. Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

Vernor Vinge

#16. Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary, it is a symptom of serious problems and of poor communication.

Harriet B. Braiker

#17. Violence may not be good, my friend, but it has a certain efficiency in the resolution of otherwise insoluble problems.

Bernard Cornwell

#18. The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

James Lafferty

#20. What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#21. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.

Winston S. Churchill

#22. Now, I will drink no German beer. The white wine of the country, with a little soda-water; perhaps occasionally a glass of Ems or potash. But beer, never - or, at all events, hardly ever." It is a good and useful resolution, which I recommend to all travellers. I

Jerome K. Jerome

#23. If the budget that you're talking about isn't a good one, then it's better not to pass a budget. Most people in the country will never notice whether we pass a budget resolution or not.

Maya MacGuineas

#24. Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.

Andrew Bonar

#25. I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.

Zadie Smith

#27. I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Robert Fulghum