Quotes About Tenacity

One more thing, one more time.

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

When you are exhausted from trying, try just one more time.

I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.

It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.

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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn't make a winner a fighter.

Mental stamina is required too. All long-term projects require this ability to keep going after the first excitement, through periods of despondency.

The important point in all our imitation [of God] is its deliberate intentionality. We don't just think God's values are good. We embrace them wholly.... To embrace is to accept with gusto, to live to the hilt, to choose with extra intentionality and tenacity. —Marva Dawn