Quotes About Tenacity

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

I finished Edson Barboza in a d'arce choke. What else do you want? He's very hard to take down. Spinning heel kicks, spinning kicks. I took some of his most powerful shots and I just kept coming forward. I'm the Boogeyman out there.

What I love about America is not necessarily the American Dream but the fact that there's so much spirit of fighting to continue to dream once the dreams are broken.

Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a life-threatening illness.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

There's only one thing that's impossible to beat... a man that doesn't give up.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!

A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

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

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

Irresolute men are sometimes very persistent in their undertakings, because if they give up their designs they would have to make a second resolution.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.