Quotes About Tenacity

If you never persisted, you will never succeed.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Un cafè non s'arrefuta mai.

What plant could flower under the cold sun of Reagan?

Hello, the all-weather Baby-sitters Club! We sit in the sleet, we sit in the freezing rain …

How did Wal-Mart do it?" I've usually been flip about answering them. "Friend, we just got after it and stayed after it," I'd say.

It's hard for us to back down once we've taken a stand.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

As I crossed the lobby to the boardwalk, all I could think was that regardless of the performance I'd just witnessed, it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

As I crossed the lobby to the boardwalk, all I could think was that regardless of the performance I'd just witnessed, it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot. (302)

it didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose.

defying gravity.

Last guys don't finish nice.

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

an ill-equipped relatable character who faces impossible odds yet doesn't give up.

I always, always got to be the last man standing.

Resolve to live as with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence.

There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of their brawl all beat up and battered, obviously both fighters gave all they had to win, and Apollo Creed says to Rocky - "Your not getting a rematch" and Rocky says "I don't want one". I love that scene. That's when you know that you left no doubt - that your opponent, win or lose, never wants to compete against you ever again. That's fighting.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on, It is going on When you don't have the strength.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Strength is a matter of a made up mind.