Quotes About Tenacity

Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]

When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero?

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extension: which is why in this respect one man can confidently take on ten thousand, and a thousand fools do not make one wise man.

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do.

Skill, surgeons believe, can be taught; tenacity cannot.

Having given up totally on making it to anything else that day, I spotted a

I was willing to be rejected...You have to be willing to be rejected. It was a trait that let him persist until he got what he wanted and avoid whatever he didn't want.

Yet doctors remained undeterred.

When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.

She reminded me of a scatterbrained old Cadillac that had been driven into the ground but somehow kept on starting, without fuss.

It doesn't matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

If your middle name is Temptation, then mine is Persistence

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

It matters if you just don't give up.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.

If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

When it's all doom and dark outside and only you inside to first make a light then tend it, you have to be a bitch.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

No bounce, no play.