Quotes About Tenacity

One of man's finest qualities is described by the simple word "guts"-the ability to take it. If you have the discipline to stand fast when your body wants to run, if you can control your temper and remain cheerful in the face of monotony or disappointment, you have "guts" in the soldiering sense.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

They were never defeated, they were only killed.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When the rock is hard, we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough, we get tougher than the job.

He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

Men must try and try again.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Failure is usually the line of least persistence.

Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice.

It isn't important to come out on top. What matters is to come out alive.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

Not only was I not a good dancer, I was one of the worst. I didn't have the long thin legs, and I didn't have natural turnout. The only thing I had was determination.

Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.