Quotes About Tenacity

"Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about."

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Perseverance is where the gods dwell.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

and a motto in a frame: sometimes i feel like giving up but then i remember of a lot of motherfuckers to prove wrong

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

I've done what I could; a man that can live as lone as I have and not know when to quit is a fool.

because it takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure.

Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had taken a look at his prospects, tied a string around his neck with a brick to the other end, and jumped from a footbridge into two feet of water. Courage aside, he had that family's tenacity of purpose, and drowned, a break in the pattern quickly obliterated by the calcimine of silence.

No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.

Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb