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Quotes About Tenacity

It took a couple more weeks, and a commitment to being a real pain in the ass...
~ John McCain
Once you've put in the work, though, the game becomes extremely mental. I had enough inner strength to know I could beat anyone at all, anytime, on any surface. But behind my defenses were some very dark places. There was always a devil inside me whom I had to fight. And the devil was fear of failure.
~ John McEnroe
Men do not fail they give up trying.
~ Elihu Root
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~ Elin Hilderbrand
What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Life is tenacious. Even on the brink of death, it holds the battlements and snarls.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Apparently Farweather was going to keep talking no matter what.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Better to be rooted out hurt, bleeding, alive, like the daisies from the turf, than blow faintly away across the lawn like a straw.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
You fall over, you get up again.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
'Ole!' to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
No," said Miss Giles. "I've become embittered. One can admit no worse failure than that can one?" "I think so," said John. "Embitterment shows a failure of humor, of humility, but not necessarily of tenacity. If you still know how to hold on you can still redeem what's lost.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Pam's determination was almost always stronger than her disappointments
~ Elizabeth Strout
Arthur M. Winfield
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
~ Arthur Young
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.
~ Arthur Young
Nunca nos habíamos enfrentado a un soldado de infantería como el español. No se derrumba, es una roca, no desespera y resiste pacientemente hasta que puede derrotarte (UN OFICIAL SUECO TRAS LA BATALLA DE NÖRDLINGEN).
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
ground gained must be retained at all cost and never yielded. Once attention has been caught, and interest kindled, the task is one of consolidation: the original impulse and fervor must be safeguarded and never allowed to disappear.
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~ Askia Muhammad
La perseverancia es tan importante con la habilidad intelectual.
~ Augusto Cury
Just because you climbed onto a rank horse once, doesn't mean you quit riding.
~ B.J. Daniels
B.K. Chaturvedi
~ determination,