Top 100 Quotes About Resolutions
#1. Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.
Eric Zorn
#2. As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
Donald Evans
#3. Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you
good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.
George Eliot
#4. To not make any resolutions. Whenever I make them, I wind up ultimately breaking them. I think a lot of people are that way, so I am going to try and avoid inevitable disappointment next year and just not make any.
Emily Blunt
#5. A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.
Cheryl Richardson
#6. Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
Martin Van Buren
#7. She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
David Nicholls
#8. Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Ludwig Quidde
#9. And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.
David Price
#10. January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#11. I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Ian K. Smith
#12. People still make New Year's resolutions? Wow. I figured those were pointless once I perfected myself by directing, writing, and acting in Garden State. I guess it makes sense, though. It gives people a chance to hope that they can become as great as me someday.
Zach Braff
#13. NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
Hillary DePiano
#14. Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
Jose Maria Aznar
#15. He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds
thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
Theodore Parker
#16. I never really have any major resolutions. I do try to be a good person, to be a good mom, to be a good wife, I don't really start the year off on January 1, 'Oh, I am now going to make a big change.' I try every day when I wake up to be good to the people around me.
Heidi Klum
#17. Is that not the whole point of gaining experience, to use it to make wiser choices, to temper destructive instincts, to find better resolutions?
R.A. Salvatore
#18. Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
Walter Bagehot
#19. Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.
Hosni Mubarak
#20. Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs - and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.
Pawan Mishra
#21. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently
Susan Coolidge
#23. All our promises and resolutions end in denial because we have no power to accomplish them.
Oswald Chambers
#24. MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
Hillary DePiano
#25. It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.
David Hume
#28. I don't believe in New Years Resolutions. I believe in new day or new hour resolutions.
Robert J. Braathe
#29. I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
Rajneesh
#30. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
Jenna Fischer
#31. MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.
Hillary DePiano
#33. There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.
Louis Stokes
#34. You don't have to wait till the beginning of a new year to make resolutions for yourself. It's all about loving and taking care of the only body you will ever have ... cherish it, love it, embrace it ... Because when you do ... It begins to show.
Demi Lovato
#35. Your minute is your hour is your day is your week is your month is your year. If you want to make this year better, make each minute better.
Saji Ijiyemi
#36. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.
Felicia Day
#37. A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.
John Newton
#38. Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.
Oli Anderson
#39. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#40. Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
Samuel Johnson
#41. A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
Thomas Hardy
#42. Set emergency goals to achieve the main ones. In this way, you won't abandon your resolutions and even failures will make you stronger.
Victoria Herocten
#43. New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Mark Twain
#44. Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you or have they just been different words on the same old beginning? Maybe now's the time to establish a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#45. May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
Aleister Crowley
#46. You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.
Bob Odenkirk
#47. Every great accomplishments requires great grace and great enthusiasm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. god i just broke so many new year's resolutions.
Meg Pokrass
#49. Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
David Hare
#50. For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
Henry Rollins
#51. Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
Marilu Henner
#53. True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
Seneca The Younger
#54. I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
Holly Lisle
#55. When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.
Andre Gide
#56. On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#59. With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Sometimes, take a moment and ponder; yes, take a moment and stir your life just as you stir that delicious stew! Taste it to know how delicious or the otherwise it is! And if there be a need for a change, be swift and tactical.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#61. Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another.
Alex Morritt
#62. We joyfully pray with grateful heart to welcome blessings in New Year.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions.
Les Miserables, page 674
Victor Hugo
#64. Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#65. All the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.
Sigmund Freud
#66. May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#67. I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
J.C. Ryle
#70. Failure to recognize the power of words in conveying difficult information diminishes opportunities for growth and move people away from rather than toward good resolutions.
Carolyn Stone
#71. We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
Alex Morrison
#72. Cuts to defense budgets are already underway ... there is now a lot of emphasis starting with the President that we have to build up our capabilities for development aid, resolutions, and getting allies to cooperate more on what needs to be done in the name of security.
James F. Hoge Jr.
#73. Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again and again, against circumstance and history... What we hope life might be, again and again, against what we see it has been. In hope, there is a reason to continue.
Israel Horovitz
#74. The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders, into intemperate and pernicious resolutions.
James Madison
#75. The way in which science and religion by and large complement each other is becoming ever clearer, as are the natures of the various points of tension between them and some possible resolutions of those tensions.
George F. R. Ellis
#77. If physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting it is bound to end in hypocrisy and disaster.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. This is not a university town full of philosophies; it is a Zion of the hundred sieges raging with religions; not a place where resolutions can be voted and amended, but a place where men can be crowned and crucified.
G.K. Chesterton
#79. Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#80. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Mark Twain
#81. If everyone followed through on their resolutions, the conseqences for humanity would be dire: The fast food industry would collapse, the gyms would become unbearably crowded, and lifestyle magazines would have nothing left to say.
Amanda Foreman
#82. How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone ... I will devote all my efforts to this end ... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood.
Peter Julian Eymard
#83. Peace can only be achieved by a contrite spirit, open communication and tolerance.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. Most come up with New Year Resolutions...
Others are busy making Excuses...
A few are following through with Execution...
Design your New Year Intentionally.
Farshad Asl
#85. It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them.
Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles
#86. The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away.
But I'm just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
#87. I will do it tomorrow. How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently. Careless or impatient and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned to do overnight.
Susan Coolidge
#88. Saturday was a sweet and sunny day, the kind that made people think about getting it together once and for all
health, kids, jobs, personal appearance, doing things right this time.
Richard Price
#90. May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams
#93. But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
#94. Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.
Shashi Tharoor
#97. I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
Tom Ford
#98. The greatest gifts of a New Year; it brings a new beginning, new blessings and new bliss.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#99. The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
#100. I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
Arthur Smith
