Quotes About Tenacity

Oh well," said Miss Marple, "it's just perseverance, isn't it, that leads to things.

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.

And he told me illegitimi non carborundum translates to, 'Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Sufficient determination will conquer any natural reluctance.

This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

As long as I am able to compete physically with the younger players, I am going to play.

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

You get into a situation where your back's up against the wall and you don't have any option but to go out swinging, so you might as well go for it.

Anytime you play basketball and your backs are to the wall, you have to come out and play aggressive.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.