Quotes About Tenacity

My mother always said to me, 'You're going to have to work harder and have to be better, and you can't take no for an answer'.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

Never say no to yourself. Make the other guy say no.

Be fearless in pursuit of your goal.

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.' - Martina Navratilova

typically sit for 18 months at a stretch,

John Milton rose every day at 4 a.m. to write Paradise Lost. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire took Edward Gibbon 26 painstaking years to complete. Ernest Hemingway is said to have reviewed The Old Man and the Sea manuscript 80 times before submitting if for publication. It took Noah Webster 36 years to compile Webster's Dictionary.

Resistance is its own reward.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn

The game's not over until it's over.

He thought it essential for youngsters to develop tenacity "so there's never an idle moment

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

The world, no matter how monstrously it may be threatened, has never been known to succumb entirely.

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A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

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