Quotes About Tenacity

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Most of them kept going because they had a job to do, and they were the only ones who could do it. The closest thing to heroism was displaying humour:

The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.

When others walk away from a lost cause, then that is the time you can step in and seize success.

I have known Hammy for years, he has been shot in the chest twice at point blank range with a sawn off shotgun. The other hard men must have been shocked when he got out the car he was in and chased them with his own hand gun, he has also been stabbed multiple times in prison and out on the rough tough streets of Glasgow but he is still standing.

If you have given up something many times over then you are strong-willed in having done it so many times over!

What you fight hard for never let go of easily!

There is doggedness to genius. It is the ability to dig deep and hold on to the dream.

20a. What You Should Be Writing About Anything you can't get rid of by other means.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

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Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.

You may get wounded; you may get roughed up. But you will not die until your work is done.

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.

As far as myself, I want to see myself hold a Grand Slam, be at the top of the game.

My whole life, I've been working really hard, and I can say I'm a grand slam champion.

I would love to win a slam by the end of my career, and I would love to achieve other things. It's just that I am not a patient guy. When I want something, I try to get it as quickly as I can.

If you get into the main draw of a Grand Slam, then you've made your mark and proved that's where you belong.

I'm happy that once again I see myself winning a Grand Slam, something that is so hard to do.

Winning a Grand Slam was something I was chasing the first day I became a coach.

It's not easy getting to a Grand Slam final.