Resolution Quotes - The whole point to New Years is not
just to have a new year
“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
“What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before
anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.”
― Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a
Media Manipulator
“The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new
year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we
exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed
sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve
that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't
waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective
for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.”
― Stella Payton
“{The resolution of the surviving members of the
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, whom Robert Ingersoll was the commander of, at his
funeral quoted here}
Robert G. Ingersoll is dead. The brave soldier, the
unswerving patriot, the true friend, and the distinguished colonel of the old
regiment of which we have the honor to be a remanent, sleeps his last sleep.
No word of ours, though written in flame, no chaplet
that our hands can weave, no testimony that our personal knowledge can bring,
will add anything to his fame.
The world honors him as the prince of orators in his
generation, as its emancipator from manacles and dogmas; philosophy, for his
aid in beating back the ghosts of superstition; and we, in addition to these,
for our personal knowledge of him, as a man, a soldier, and a friend.
We know him as the general public did not. We knew him
in the military camp, where he reigned an uncrowned king, ruling with that
bright scepter of human benevolence which death alone could wrest from his hand.
We had the honor to obey, as we could, his calm but
resolute commands at Shiloh, at Corinth, and at Lexington, knowing as we did,
that he would never command a man to go where he would not dare to lead the
way.
We recognize only a small circle who could know more of
his manliness and worth than we do. And to such we say: Look up, if you can,
through natural tears; try to be as brave as he was, and try to remember -- in
the midst of grief which his greatest wish for life would have been to help you
to bear -- that he had no fear of death nor of anything beyond.”
― Herman E. Kittredge, Ingersoll: A Biographical
Appreciation
“At each small success we should not become our own
heroes in our minds”
― Dr. V. V. Rao
“Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much
happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might,
vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards Resolutions: and
Advice to Young Converts
“{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll's funeral,
quoted here}
Whereas, in the order of nature -- that nature which
moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws -- Robert G. Ingersoll
has gone to that repose which we call death.
We, his old friends and fellow-citizens, who have
shared his friendship in the past, hereby manifest the respect due his memory.
At a time when everything impelled him to conceal his opinions or to withhold
their expression, when the highest honors of the state were his if he would but
avoid discussion of the questions that relate to futurity, he avowed his belief;
he did not bow his knee to superstition nor countenance a creed which his
intellect dissented.
Casting aside all the things for which men most sigh --
political honor, the power to direct the futures of the state, riches and
emoluments, the association of the worldly and the well- to-do -- he stood
forth and expressed his honest doubts, and he welcomed the ostracism that came
with it, as a crown of glory, no less than did the martyrs of old.
Even this self-sacrifice has been accounted shame to
him, saying that he was urged thereto by a desire for financial gain, when at
the time he made his stand there was before him only the prospect of loss and
the scorn of the public. We, therefore, who know what a struggle it was to cut
loose from his old associations, and what it meant to him at that time, rejoice
in his triumph and in the plaudits that came to him from thus boldly avowing
his opinions, and we desire to record the fact that we feel that he was greater
than a saint, greater than a mere hero -- he was a thoroughly honest man.
He was a believer, not in the narrow creed of a past
barbarous age, but a true believer in all that men ought to hold sacred, the
sanctity of the home, the purity of friendship, and the honesty of the
individual. He was not afraid to advocate the fact that eternal truth was
eternal justice; he was not afraid of the truth, nor to avow that he owed
allegiance to it first of all, and he was willing to suffer shame and
condemnation for its sake.
The laws of the universe were his bible; to do good,
his religion, and he was true to his creed. We therefore commend his life, for
he was the apostle of the fireside, the evangel of justice and love and charity
and happiness.
We who knew him when he first began his struggle, his
old neighbors and friends, rejoice at the testimony he has left us, and we
commend his life and efforts as worthy of emulation.”
― Herman E. Kittredge, Ingersoll: A Biographical
Appreciation
“Don’t make empty resolutions about this or that
external little thing – make one huge resolution to give yourself to yourself.
Then everything else will quite effortlessly fall into place.”
― Jay Woodman
