Quotes About Tenacity

dogged focus

Why did they quit so easily? The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control.

It took practice, and it took persistence.

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

To lead a process requires persistence.

But life is not inclined to let any of us escape.

It's okay to fail, it's not okay to quit.

be in it to win it.

Weakies, Breakfast of Chumps.)

Or maybe when you have the sheer force of will to keep doing something over and over again until you get it right, winning feels more like relief than anything else.

Survival has its own etiquette.

the art of survival is a story that never ends

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit,

tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable...

The most important qualities a human can possess are an iron will and a persevering spirit," Mamey says.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

For those who never give up

dagoes. With obscenity

He seemed to believe that every battle was worth fighting.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

In most couples there is the person who wins and the person who doesn't. The winner isn't necessarily stronger or smarter or righter. The winner is the person who won't give up, and the non-winner ("loser" is not the correct word for the person who does not win), at a certain point, realizes the battle is a silly one, and the spoils are not worth the extended warfare.

Lo cierto es que me obsesionaba una sola idea: la determinación de vivir, de sobrevivir a toda costa.