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Quotes About Tenacity

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
~ James Frey
Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
~ James Frey
He swung so hard, you could've turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.
~ James Kaplan
She would not fail this night. Nothing would stop her. Cassandra worked around to the far
~ James Rollins
Endurance is the crowning quality…
~ James Russell Lowell
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
~ James Russell Lowell
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.
~ James Taylor
Hobie had an iron constitution. Whenever he came down with something himself, he drank a Fernet-Branca and kept going.
~ Donna Tartt
It was a grim and evil fate, but I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield for any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
~ Doris Lessing
He had survived that. He would survive this.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
It wasn't that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
~ Dorothy Parker
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur had almost given up. That is to say, he was not going to give up. He was absolutely not going to give up. Not now. Not ever. But if he had been the sort of person who was going to give up, this was probably the time he would have done it.
~ Douglas Adams
She worked out once and for all where the Land Rover had to be, and worked it out with such ruthless determination that the Land Rover would hardly dare not to be there
~ Douglas Adams
Life will always find a way og hanging on in somewhere.
~ Douglas Adams
Life always wins.
~ Douglas Coupland
My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.
~ Aeschylus
To try and to fail, is not laziness
~ African Proverb
The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.
~ African Proverb
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
~ Agatha Christie
for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that
~ Agatha Christie