Quotes About Tenacity

Marines don't know how to spell the word 'defeat'.

I'm never satisfied unless I get the last word.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

My advice to every one expecting to go into business is to hit often and hit hard; in other words, strike with all your might.

The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.

I work to stay alive.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.

Our work is never over.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done.

I want to have the strongest work ethic.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.

I'm tenacious. I work hard. I like people that I collaborate with to work as hard as I am.

I work hard. That's probably one of my only strengths.

I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

After my debut in 2001 in 'Aks,' where I had a small part, I had to work really hard to get work in the industry. For almost three years, I had no work.

I almost went broke. I didn't file bankruptcy, but I had some miserable times there for two or three years.

I don't miss a three-month training camp. I don't miss fight week. But I do miss being the baddest man on the planet.

I might have been a jockey, you know. I started by riding horses bareback and holding on to the mane before they finally threw me off.

I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder.