Quotes About Tenacity

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

It don't matter if I got a broke hand, got a torn muscle: I'm going to fight like heavyweight champions do.

Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility.

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance," wrote John D. Rockefeller.

But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat.

Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.

the "10,000 hour" rule. The rule's premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice. Analyzing the lives of geniuses in a wide range of intellectual, artistic, and athletic pursuits confirms this concept.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.

Kuku besi perlu mencakar kerana kalau tidak mencakar, dia bukan lagi kuku besi

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

Courage was holding the pirate flag, but he let it droop. Gallantry's lower lip trembled. Tenacity climbed down from the statue, getting his feet wet. Honor, the littlest one, sniffed.

even when she wasn't

Sometimes I just get tired of bowin' down and givin' up, you know?" It

Resistance builds strength

Whenever a ball of tape or an empty water bottle didn't land in the waste basket, Crosby would throw it again and again until he sunk it. He never gave up until he succeeded, even when it came to tossing out the garbage.

Now listen up, you Navy-loving son of a bitch! If my friend wants that bear, she's gonna get that bear. And neither hell nor you nor some big-haired, twenty-hour-sleeping king of the idiots is gonna stop me from making sure she gets that bear!

No, he wasn't letting Dez MacDermot get away. He'd take her down like his ancestors took down full-grown zebra.

Like heavy-duty Tupperware, Blayne kept bouncing back.

Most of the time after the US Open, it is kind of like you are trying to finish strong. But to do it five years and maybe six is something that has never been done before, so it is a huge challenge.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

Don't you know I"m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

I wasn't sure I'd ever win again. Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.