Quotes About Tenacity

Sabes cuál es la mayor victoria de una gata sobre un tejado de zinc caliente? Resistir en él todo el tiempo que le sea posible, hasta el último segundo.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you've got to keep going.

They may be years ahead of the human race but we've got one thing they haven't -- bloodymindedness! It built this planet. (UFO: Time Lash)

There were times, she knew from experience, when it was best just to continue on rather than to shift directions, even when it didn't seem as if you were getting anywhere. Your chances of success weren't always something you could measure accurately. Perseverance in the face of failure counted for something.

Survive! The word ratcheted through him, an echo that would not be stilled. Endure!

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.

To save the world takes one cold son of a bitch.

the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

Don't you *ever* let go? I haven't yet. Why? I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

The Post Office was the underdog, and an underdog can always find somewhere soft to bite.

Let me through. I'm a nosy person.' she said, employing both elbows. It worked, as this sort of approach generally does.

I wanted Bird Dog to play that game like I wanted a sack of hammers across the jaw.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog.

Not this time.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

As an athlete, when you have a desire and a want to do something, you fight for it. And it doesn't matter how long your journey is; it's whether you give up or don't.

Sometimes, you fall into a ditch without knowing it is there, without seeing it, but you try to come out of it. If you fall again, you will jump out again.

You don't jump out of an airplane and stop halfway. It's all the way.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm not like the other guys. Maybe I'm not as fast as them. I cannot jump as high as them. But it's been 11 years for me now. You just play different.

I'm not the type of person to give up just because something gets rough. That's a coward. That's not me.

Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

I just kind of go on with what I'm doing.