Quotes About Tenacity

A man who is a man goes on until he can go no further—and then goes twice as far.

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don't you?

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed." When

The game doesn't always go your way. Forget fair. Feel forgotten. But damn it, Anna, You don't stop playing.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

Did you think a little time and death would stop me?

You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.

Nothing would give up life:Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield to any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.

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.