Quotes About Tenacity

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

'The Will To Survive' is a great track.

The only way to survive is to get back up.

My strength of character is a privilege. I can do anything to survive. I don't break easily.

Early in my career I had to be a goon to survive. I did everything I had to do and probably some things I shouldn't have.

I am ready to do whatever I need in order to survive.

I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on!

I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

What fails to kill me will kill me eventually.

Last guys don't finish nice.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong... Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate, they're never forced to question their ability to defend bad ideas.

Effective PMs simply consider more alternatives before giving up than other people do.

diligence wins battles.

Be relentless "The world responds to action, and not much else." — Scott Adams

refuse to quit until every possible alternative has been explored.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up!

You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Oh whatever it is bitch, I promise you it won't be easy." --Jean Tannen

I'm done losing. Do you fucking hear me? I am done losing. Spare me your precious self-pity, because this isn't a stage and I didn't pay two coppers to cry my eyes out over anyone's death speech. You don't fucking get one, understand? I don't care if you cough up buckets of blood. Buckets I can carry. I don't care if you howl like a dog for months. You're going to eat and drink and keep fighting.

It ain't no broken.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.