Quotes About Tenacity

As we experience pleasures happily, we must also learn not to lose our happiness when pain comes. As we see good in pleasure, we should learn to see good in pain. Learn to find comfort even in discomfort. We must not try to run from the pain but to move through and beyond it. This is the cultivation of tenacity and perseverance, which is a spiritual attitude toward yoga. This is also the spiritual attitude toward life.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

I finished three years ranked No. 1, so the ranking doesn't matter anymore.

My long-term goal is to get as high as possible in the rankings, and to improve my game each day. If I am able to do that, my ranking should get better and better.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle that we even got on the air, and I'm very pleased with the ratings and the response.

He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.

You don't knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

I've never reached the point where I was ready to abandon a series.

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn't matter. I'm a fighter, and I'm ready to fight every time.

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

The only real failure is giving up.

At Real Madrid you have to fight until the end.

We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

I've always had a thing where, if I start something, it's gotta get finished. No matter how long it takes, I've gotta see it to fruition.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Man, I fought since pre-K. I was small for my grade, but I was tough.

My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number one.

Hopefully I can win grand slams in the future but until then I have to work very, very hard.

Being number one, winning Grand Slams, that's something I never had before.

When I was younger, I was always that person that loved to get stuck in. When my mum and grandma used to come and watch me, I used to make sure that I wouldn't let anybody push me around and not let anybody bully me.