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Quotes About Tenacity

MATT HARDY WILL NOT DIE
~ Matt Hardy
Obsession of a strong-hearted woman, Mr. Dolby, can be more dangerous than ten men.
~ Matthew Pearl
My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
~ Maureen Johnson
He did not think of the ten years: What remained of them tonight was only a feeling which he could not name, except that it was quiet and solemn. The feeling was a sum, and he did not have to count again the parts that had gone to make it.
~ Ayn Rand
only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began
~ Ayn Rand
Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it.
~ Ayn Rand
Such tenacity drove the entire White House staff. Denis McDonough at one point distributed stickers to everyone, emblazoned with the words FIGHT CYNICISM. This became a useful slogan, an article of our faith.
~ Barack Obama
Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.
~ Barack Obama
And gosh, I wasn't a great athlete. I wasn't big and strong. But I had two things going for me. I could take a punch. And I didn't give up.
~ Barack Obama
Whatever you don't won't be enough. Try anyway.
~ Barack Obama
already with needles inside. "Tig just
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Red on! Depends much. So?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
If you're standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
In the end, it's the bitches of the world who abide . . . and as for the dust bunnies: frig ya!
~ Stephen King
Cultivate whatever serves your persistence.
~ Stephen Koch
History, for better and for worse, is made by those who never give up.
~ Stephen Kotkin
But if he imagined this gift from his enemies had driven a stake through the Testament, he was mistaken. It would never die.
~ Stephen Kotkin
If you think that would stop her, you don't much about Renata.
~ Stephen McCauley
nothing takes the place of persistence.
~ Steve Berry
I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.
~ Steve Berry
We start something and then we stop. When Dusan coaches his clients his recommendation is this: stop stopping.
~ Steve Chandler
stop stopping.
~ Steve Chandler