Quotes About Tenacity

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Sometimes I have to deal with pain in my wrist, which is normal after all my surgeries, but I think it's amazing for me to be just thinking about tennis, not anymore about the injuries.

I think the people loves my effort to come back and play tennis. They know what have been through with all my wrist problems. They like one guy who never give ups, and he's trying to play tennis.

I'm my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error... failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually... you roll with the punches.

I got dumped off 'The Iron Lady' a month before they started shooting, and then they brought two new writers on. Then I was brought back on again. I'm just a bit of a rubber ball. I just bounce back.

There was no apology for the way the world worked. Only accommodation to it, while at the same time committing—somehow—not to give up.

They hadn't come so far just to be turned away because of adolescent radicalism.

Grenville Kleiser

Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.

Gretta Mulrooney

Además, para triunfar siempre en la vida no hace falta más que mucho tupé.

Don't stop paying attention to a project because it gets boring.

The power never to compromise. .. [to] have the fortitude.. .the guts!.. .the stamina for the long haul.

My opinion has always been this," he said, "that you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breathe your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan.

This is how detecting works. You keep going even if what you're doing seems like a momentous waste of time and energy.

There is a very fine line between relentless and stupid," Win said. "Try to stay on the right side of it.

At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven't got enough hustle to find a co-founder who's got hustle, it's going to be tough. You've got to have a little hustle in you.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Get tough: don't work under pressure; work over pressure.

I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.

Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.