Quotes About Tenacity

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I'll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

It's not over until it's over.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.

Puny human body, my ass!

you have to do it till you're done

La única forma de ganar es seguir jugando.

There is a hopefulness to the human spirit that will just not accept no for an answer.

and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.' 'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.

If we could see ourselves from far enough away, we would seem like a colony of insects running into things repeatedly: thousands of little determined beings butting into obstacles, shaking our little heads and bodies, and running into things again.