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Quotes About Tenacity

The person who moves with definiteness recognizes the difference between temporary defeat and failure. When plans fail he substitutes others but he does not change his purpose. He perseveres.
~ Napoleon Hill
Failure cannot cope with persistence.
~ Napoleon Hill
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.
~ Napoleon Hill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
~ Napoleon Hill
UN LÂCHEUR NE GAGNE JAMAIS ET UN GAGNEUR NE LÂCHE JAMAIS.
~ Napoleon Hill
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.
~ Napoleon Hill
He left himself no possible way of retreat. He had to win or perish!
~ Napoleon Hill
person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.
~ Napoleon Hill
Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.
~ Napoleon Hill
as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
If a thing is worth doing it's worth doing badly.
~ Carla Speed McNeil
When a rat sneaks in, there's no way of getting rid of it. You give it poison, and it eats it. You set up a rat trap, and it shits on it. A rat is the most difficult thing in the world to get rid of. Because rats are cowards. Because they hide. Because they think they're cleverer than you.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You're one of those people who fall off a tree and never quite reach the ground.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.
~ Carol Kendall
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.
~ Carol Tavris
Caroline B. Cooney
~ And always would.
It means this isn't over.
~ Carolyn Keene
Inveniam viam - I shall either find a way or make one.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Bring it on, fur-ass!
~ Charlaine Harris
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
~ Charlaine Harris
you have to play it out sometimes.
~ Charlaine Harris
Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.
~ Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris
~ duct tape—real