Quotes About Tenacity

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

Giving up was never an option

Son,you never quit

I will not take 'but' for an answer.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if you're strong enough," said Jace firmly.

No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell… forever.

Whatever doesn't kill me...had better start running.

Fine," Emma said. She strode over to the corner and picked up the tapestry of Alec. "But I'm keeping this.

Things did change. He'd gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he'd ever say so out loud

You're attacking that one like a wolverine.

I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'

Old birds are hard to pluck.

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you're out.

The greatest writers have persistence.

E' incredibile come certa gente si arrenda subito. Non sono perdenti, sono quelli che non ci provano nemmeno.

Let me tell you this: They shut me down on radio, that's fine, I'll do TV. They shut me down on TV, that's fine, I'll do Internet. They shut me down on the Internet, that's fine, I'll do stage shows. They shut me down on stage shows, that's fine, I'll go door to door. You will have to shoot me in the head. We are not stopping.

Maybe he thought I would run then. Maybe he thought I would be done. But I had been hurt before. I think he underestimated my ability to pick myself up and keep going. Done? Far from it.

Failure has often happened to me but I have never failed.

Someone told me that I am still too young to do it. I said that that is my biggest motivation.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written: 'Burned out by drought, Drowned out by flud waters, Et out by jack-rabbits, Sold out by sheriff, STILL HERE.