Quotes About Tenacity

It had been awful, but I hadn't quit. I had persisted. In battle I had won.

Keep going," Susan said. "The only way out of this is straight through.

The time to quit is before you wish you had.

Strength In Fortitude. (MacAllister Creed)

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

Justice may be slow, but she's also relentless.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

I'm not the most talented. I'm not the tallest. I'm not the strongest. But I will outwork you.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

We're still on the run. That's for sure. Right on. This time we're on. And we won't stop till we win.

Giving up is what kills people.

You leave me tied up like a dog? Then you had better remember that this bitch bites!

If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

El hombre que no se doblega, fácilmente se puede quebrar

S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

Character, the sportswriters said. They know it when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even when things are going against you.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" or "Rome wasn't built in a day.

Somebodies are people who go for it with all they have.

It's a lot more difficult for me than I thought it would be, but it's what I want to do, so that only makes me more determined. When they tell me I can't, it really gets me going.' Challenge and interest went hand in hand.

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or plan of action but justify it even more tenaciously.

You are not easily rescued

She is not burdened with a sensitive heart. Hers just beats.

So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in a thousand different forms. The diet form, the romance form, the addiction form, the overriding hunger for this purchase or that job, this relationship or that one. Hunger may be insatiable by nature, it may be fathomless, but our will to fill it, our often blind tenacity in the face of it, can be extraordinary.