Quotes About Tenacity

Fuck that shit, I told them, I've started this and I'm going to finish it.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.

Matter of fact, you would, says Zeb. Heart like shale. What you need is a good fracking.

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.

She wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.

And don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't. I know.

They burned you," she [Scarlett] thought, "and they laid you flat. But they didn't lick you. They couldn't lick you. You'll grow back just as big and sassy as you used to be!

stick-in-themuddish

All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had

What I want I take if I can get it, and so I wrestle neither with angels nor devils

Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger.

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Even when I was No. 1 in the world, I was taking it one match at a time. I never was a player to look too far ahead, the way draws can pan out.

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.