Quotes About Tenacity

When I die, they might as well bury me at the finish line at Churchill Downs so they can run over me one more time.

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!

Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

You may feel a little as if writing a novel is like trying to level Mount McKinley with a dentist's drill.

Has been done. Can be done. Must be done...

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.

Lady Miranda Rohan struck him as someone extremely difficult to crush. Thus, the challenge was immediately appealing.

Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays. Just once he'd like to see a hero like himself -- not a quitter, but a man who did face facts and give up gracefully when pushing on was foolish.

life by its mere appalling length is a feat of endurance for which you haven't the strength.

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

Scott Westerfeld

And they never have to win; they just have to keep not losing.

Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.

Here's an assignment for you: Write it down. Write down under what circumstances you're willing to quit. And when. And then stick with it.

most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top.

When people quit, they are often focused on the short-term benefits. In other words, "If it hurts; stop!

the opposite of quitting is rededication.

I can do this forever. It's like adjusting a pair

No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere along the way they quit. They didn't quit high school or college or law school. Instead, they quit in their quest to be the best in the world because the cost just seemed too high.

If I fail more times than you, I win.