Quotes About Tenacity

Press on, press on, men.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

Anybody can be a halfway man, but the one who rises above this class is the one who keeps everlastingly pushing.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Develop The Grit To be great.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.