Quotes About Tenacity

Librarianship... it's not for the faint-hearted.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,' I said which means, 'I'll either find a way or make one

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

I prefer men who don't fall down and weep, who absorb a blow, who do not scamper and yell when chased, but stand firm, crouch, square off, meet an attack with something like resistance, even if it kills them.

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

That said, based on knowing her and on her record on the Board in the 1990s when inflation was a concern, I also had little doubt that she would tenaciously defend price stability when necessary.

We remain close to this day.

But I was determined to go further if necessary.

Knock me down, it's all in vain I get right back on my feet again

Not every record needs to be a hit record. It's not meant to do that, and people's careers go through cycles and if you want to be the last man standing, you have to be fierce and tenacious and you just have to stand there and you have to let it do its thing.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Nothing can resist a human will that will stake its existence on a purpose

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He who can have patience can have what he will.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Fight back. Bite back.

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.

I just refuse to lose.