Quotes About Tenacity

I bend, but I do not break.

God Almighty hates a quitter.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.

People with good intentions never give up!

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat.

One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school, the little while I went, I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me, but I always got up.

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

We conquer by continuing.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Don't give up the ship!

The game isn't over until it's over.