Quotes About Resolutions

#1. 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

#2. The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

David Lloyd George

#3. I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Henny Youngman

#4. Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Alessandro Baricco

#5. It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust

#6. At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order ...

Augustus

#7. I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

Henry Moore

#8. I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions.

Francis Ledwidge

#9. I have always had the same New Year resolutions: To stop smoking, to start wearing a bra, and to stop shopping.

Cameron Diaz

#10. Demands for healthy food choices were like New Year's resolutions. Top priority on Boxing Day, forgotten with time to spare for Valentine's chocolate.

Richard A. Lovett

#11. One of my New Year's resolutions is to say 'yes!' Yes to love, yes to life, yes to staying in more!

LIZ

#12. The touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.

Hannah Arendt

#13. The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

Fredrik Bajer

#14. People come up with resolutions that don't reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

Kelly McGonigal

#15. The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

Tony Blair

#16. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States.

Edward Said

#17. When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

Saint John Chrysostom

#18. You got your resolutions ... We just got reservations.

Drake

#19. Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.

David Foenkinos

#20. Essentially, Iran was sanctioned because of what had happened at Fordow, its unwillingness to comply with previous U.N. security resolutions about their nuclear program, and as part of the package of sanctions that was slapped on them, the issue of arms and ballistic missiles were included.

Barack Obama

#21. You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

L. Ron Hubbard

#22. My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Robert Schumann

#23. I don't really do New Year's resolutions because I don't think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you've got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Clay Aiken

#24. I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

John F. Kerry

#25. I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Og Mandino

#26. Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

John Henry Newman

#27. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

Francis De Sales

#28. Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them.

Robert Kiyosaki

#29. Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.

Anthony Trollope

#30. It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions ... to practice them ever while I lived.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. In the morning you were never violently sorry
you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#33. The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

Mahmoud Abbas

#34. Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

William Penn

#35. I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

Anais Nin

#36. It's another New Year's eve and time to make new resolutions. Promise wherever you are in life ... to go out and find your beach!

Timothy Pina

#37. But to tell the truth (to tell the truth!) I have never been particularly resolute, I mean given to resolutions, but rather inclined to plunge headlong into the shit, without knowing who was shitting against whom or on which side I had the better chance of skulking with success.

Samuel Beckett

#38. Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills.

Kevin Cramer

#39. Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

Abraham Lincoln

#40. Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.

Elliott Abrams

#41. When we hold our church-meetings we record our minutes and resolutions, but the Holy Spirit only puts down the acts.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#42. That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

#43. The success of the documentation efforts lies in the users being able to correctly locate and use the resolutions to their issues on time and retain that knowledge for later use.

Suyog Ketkar

#44. Desires occur because pratyakhyan [resolutions to not repeat the mistake] were not done. It comes in the memory because pratikraman [repentances] were not done.

Dada Bhagwan

#45. God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

William Cowper

#46. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Helen Fielding

#47. However many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Vita Sackville-West

#48. Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?

Lucas Malet

#49. There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Dick Cheney

#50. Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since.

Dave Beard

#51. The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.

Louisa May Alcott

#52. We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

Igor Ivanov

#53. We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

Peter T. King

#54. The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Sydney Smith

#55. There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.

Hassan Nasrallah

#56. Fear not; only believe. This is a time to make resolutions that will be binding upon you. This is a season to set standards that will hold you to the right course and make you happy now and in the years that follow.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#57. The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.

Ellen Hopkins

#58. Yes, my resolutions were remarkable in this, that they were no sooner formed than something always happened to prevent their execution. That

Samuel Beckett

#59. One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

John Oldham

#60. Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#61. Time is always now. Everybody who has ever thought about his own life knows this. You don't make resolutions about something you are going to do next year. No! You decide to write a book: the book may be finished twenty years from now, but you've got to start it now.

James Baldwin

#62. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Noam Chomsky

#63. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

#64. Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Aldous Huxley

#66. One of my New Year's resolutions was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody.

Tom Hiddleston

#67. Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Emily Bronte

#68. New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

Elizabeth Thornton

#69. Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a question streams a wonderful fragrance.

Robert Walser

#70. Resolutions were made for man, not man for resolutions.

Jerome K. Jerome

#71. New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.

Debbie Ford

#72. Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline ... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with ... something about yourself, your career, your spouse

Dale Dauten

#73. President Bush has delivered a new resolution to the U.N. saying that Saddam has failed to cooperate with U.N. resolutions, freeing us to get our war on. Don't mess with us France, or we'll send Jerry Lewis to Iraq as a human shield.

Craig Kilborn

#74. Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated ... The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.

Stephen Charnock

#75. I never really make solid resolutions. I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year.

Brittany Murphy

#76. Many years ago, I made a New Year's resolution to never make New Year's resolutions. Hell, it's been the only resolution I've ever kept!

D.S. Mixell

#77. Tomorrow is red with the blood of murdered resolutions.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#78. No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

Lord Chesterfield

#79. Good resolutions are like babies crying in church. They should be carried out immediately.

Charles M. Sheldon

#80. Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

Tony Robbins

#81. Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

Steve Maraboli

#82. You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about.

Bent Saether

#83. Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

Arlen Specter

#84. Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.

Patricia Garfield

#85. I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

Oscar Wilde

#86. This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

Nikola Tesla

#87. Knowing what to do is not usually the problem; the elusive goal becomes translating intentions into action and resolutions into results.

Dan Millman

#88. The start of your day should be filled with hope for new opportunities, positive energy for resolutions and the excitement of what lies ahead.

Michael S. Moore

#89. The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

Tim Ferriss

#90. What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

Aimee Mann

#91. Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

Kris Carr

#92. Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#93. Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do.

Gary Hopkins

#94. There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Edward Thomson

#95. You're as strong as your resolutions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#96. Decisions that lead to no action, like a decision to start a new diet tomorrow, are no decisions at all. That's why is so easy to make New Year's resolutions.

H.W. Lewis

#97. NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I say? I like setting personal goals and challenging myself to improve. I suppose I could do it on any day of the year, but the New Year is as good a day as any. It's a fresh start.

Hillary DePiano

#98. The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

Bashar Al-Assad

#99. Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

Jonathan Edwards

#100. 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