And hearts resolved and hands prepared — Resolution

"Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution."

"For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will."

"I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."

"Nor cast one longing, lingring look behind."

"You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. I cannot, never accomplished anything: I will try, has wrought wonders."

"What mockeries are our most firm resolves ! To will is ours, but not to execute. We map our future like some unknown coast, And say, "Here is an harbour, here a rock — The one we will attain, the other shun :" And we do neither."