Quotes About Tenacity

I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all. 

Cora was like a tree—once rooted, she stood, in spite of storms and strife, wind, and rocks, in the earth.

I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all.

the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Push yourself, again and again, into positions that say 'no' to your opponent. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

You have no idea how to drown, so you're gonna swim.

Creía que estabas muerto-. dijo -Soy demasiado cabezota como para dejarme matar.

When Louie was in his sixties, he was still climbing Cahuenga Peak every week and running a mile in under six minutes. In his seventies, he discovered skateboarding. At eighty-five, he returned to Kwajalein on a project, ultimately unsuccessful

Who hit you in the butt with a saddle and told you you could ride?" a starter hissed before a race. "The same S.O.B. that hit you in the butt and told you you could start!" he shot back. Pollard had found the one place on earth that could hold his interest. He was broke, hungry, and, according to his sister Edie, "happy as heck.

Never again was she going to sit by while life went on around her. Never again was she going to wait for fate to hand her what she wanted. From now on, she was going to reach out and grab her dreams and not let go.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

That bitch is like the fucking clap. You think you've killed her but she pops back up to ruin your day over and over. Except Vampires can't contract social diseases. So she's worse.

On and on they went.

they were determined to survive to the end of the voyage.

With the chance I've been given, I'm gonna be driven as hell

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause—and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Sometimes a champion is the one who is ready to act, not the strongest or the bravest.

Celeste Bradley

Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.

Better to just hold on and try not to flinch.

Fortune or misfortune, a man can but try; there's not to be done without trying - accept laying down and dying.

It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, clasped her tight, and even lifted her from the floor in the struggle that they had.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer," said Miss Pross, in her breathing. "Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.