Unbending Resolve Quotes

He [Lord Rosebery] would not stoop [to common politics]; he did not conquer.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" thought the greed of getting supporters.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

We cannot afford methods less ruthless than those of our opposition.

But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.

You won't see me compromising just because it is convenient for me to do so.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

Anything less than gold is a failure to me. It's extreme pressure, but I hold myself to a high standard.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well.