Quotes About Tenacity

Being brave is what led to three rejections from Yale Law School before being accepted. It led to losing my 2010 race for U.S. Congress, and another failed bid for public office in 2013, this time for public advocate of New York City.

You want to fight for everything you can get, every yard, every drive, every opportunity that you have.

Guys who aren't going to be brought down on first contact, they'll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.

Yeah, that's been my style to drive as hard as I can.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Losing a game is not a tragedy after experiencing border raids and having to eat beetles because you are out of rations.

The dream is to win a Grand Slam and that is what I'm playing for and training for. It's tough, but I believe that maybe one day I'll be lucky enough to win one.

Besides training, you need to be focused and not shy away from hard work.

Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in general.

If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity.

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Lengthen your stride/go the extra mile

You know, Susey," he said, "they ruined a hell of a man when they cut the balls off you!" O'Malley never was one to tiptoe around a thing.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Few men on earth have ever fought with such faithfulness and tenacity to preserve their most intimate selves, their "essences", from all impurities, from all toxins left by the rank spume of an epoch's storm waves, and fewer still have managed to rescue from the time in which they lived, and for all time, their deepest selves.

With that sort of energy and tenacity a man can make money in all sorts of ways. But real fortunes are only made as the result of a special relation between receipts and expenditure, between earnings and out-goings. This, then, was the other secret in the rise of our friend Kanitz: in all those years he spent as good as nothing, apart from the fact that he supported a whole string of relations and paid for his brother's studies.