Top 256 Resolutions Quotes & Sayings

Resolutions require only words. Results take action.

Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.

U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

Diplomacy is essential if we are to find peaceful resolutions in times of tension.

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.

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

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

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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.

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

When it comes to sticking to your resolutions, research has shown that 'action-oriented' resolutions have a better chance of being upheld than 'idea-oriented.' For example, a resolution to lose weight is really only an idea with nothing actionable to do. However, sticking with that goal in mind, you could make the resolution action-oriented by saying 'get up 30 minutes earlier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and do a 20-minute workout at home before work.' Now you have an actionable path on how to achieve your goal.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

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

No American ambassador has produced more Security Council Resolutions on the issue of Iran than John Bolton.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I do not make resolutions for New Year, but visualise and plan things.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

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.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.

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

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

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

Resolutions are exhausting. Embrace ease.

We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

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

Make few resolutions, but keep them strictly

We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.

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

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

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.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

Everything in life is about habits. Nothing resolved in a single day really matters at all. So I don't do resolutions at all.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

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.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Now you are trying to recover it through Irangate. I know that. But it will cost you a lot. And if you are speaking about the charters again, you have to remember that the Israelis should recognize first the resolutions of the United Nations, according to [one of] which they became a state. Israel is the only state which was created by one of the United Nations resolutions.

I don't do resolutions, as I am a rebel without a cause in that respect - I always break them by the second of Jan.!

Every New Years, one of my major resolutions is to drink more water.

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

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

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

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

The question of international norms or international resolutions, you know, coming from Mr. Obama is not really about whether there are international norms or resolutions to uphold.

Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test.

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

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