Quotes About Tenacity

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

The pro keeps coming on. He beats Resistance at its own game by being even more resolute and even more implacable than it is.

The years have taught me one skill: how to be miserable. I know how to shut up and keep humping. This is a great asset because it's human, the proper role for a mortal.

Someone once asked the Spartan king Leonidas to identify the supreme warrior virtue from which all others flowed. He replied: Contempt for death. For us as artists, read failure. Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

Be Stubborn Once we commit to action, the worst thing we can do is to stop. What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

When we're stubborn, there's no quit in us. We're mean. We're mulish. We're ornery. We're in till the finish. We will sink our junkyard-dog teeth into Resistance's ass and not let go, no matter how hard he kicks.

Seems he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that might just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end, I promise you that. Just as sure as the turning of the earth.

Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.

Working out must have cost him everything he had, yet he never failed to appear. There was a doggedness about him that I admired. I watched him with interest, ashamed of my own interior complaints.

What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists.

She'll outlive the last cockroach

What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists. It isn't the largeness in you that matters most, it's your passion to bring it forth.

I always have cold feet but come on, they won't stop me.

You will not succeed unless your men have tenacity and unity of purpose, and above all, a spirit of sympathetic cooperation.

Failure is Impossible

Failure is impossible" - Susan B. Anthony

If I start , I'm not going to stop, he said flatly.

There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old's determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing in order to get her way.

Winston Churchill once said, "When you are going through hell, keep going.

Yes, she was a mess, but she wasn't fragile. She would not be broken.

Die, but do not retreat.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.