Quotes About Tenacity

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Where I come from, the attitude to have is to not quit.

Fight for what you believe in, Spencer," he always told her. "Never give up." "Don't sell yourself short." "Even if you're the only one left standing, keep fighting.

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3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

We've got some unholy badasses in here, as you know. But nobody

David Baldacci

David Baldacci

David Baldacci

I remember thinking about her that it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.

David Baldacci

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David Baldacci

A volte ho l'impressione che se davvero ho un talento non è di natura letteraria. Il mio è piuttosto un talento per la pura e semplice sopravvivenza. Sono sopravvissuto a tre matrimoni naufragati, alla perdita dei figli, alla guerra, alla tubercolosi, al marxismo, all'alcolismo, alla nevrosi e ad anni di scrittura da freelance. Sono troppo cocciuto e miserabile perché mi si possa far fuori, mi sa». - W.L.Gresham

If you must fight, fight to win