Quotes About Tenacity

And the guy broke an arm. Penny Turner is one strong

Once you see the glimmer of an opening, shove your foot into the crack.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Do not take no for an answer

defeat the defeat before the defeat defeats you

Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that she had to shut down to survive. Yet still she stands upright with dignity, knowing that she endures, and still she dances with the wind.

She wore her determination like war paint.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.