Quotes About Tenacity

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. "24/Seven

Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it -- no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Nothing stays together without a fight.

I am going to learn it if I must die in the attempt.

When something that needs to be done is impossible to do," Estelle said, "I have always found that the only possible course of action is to do it anyway.

one must not give in to defeat after just one try, or even, perhaps, after twenty.

He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.

She was set on enduring, no matter what.she'd harden into whatever shape survival required.from that second forward, she had to figure what-all she'd have to lose for that survival, what-all and who.

She's got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull–piranha hybrid.

Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

And consider, always, every day, the determination of the grass to grow despite the unending obstacles.

You will hear no a lot. It's about not giving up and having the absurd belief that someone, somewhere will say yes. I don't go away easily.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.

But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.

I don't care who I have to fight! If he rips my arms out, I'll kick him to death! If he rips my legs off, I'll bite him to death! If he rips my head off, I'll stare him to death! And if he gouges out my eyes, I'll curse him from the grave! Even If i'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back from Orochimaru!

Give up on me giving up.