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Quotes About Tenacity

Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Maybe the important thing is to keep trying, no matter how hard it feels.
~ Unknown
The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.
~ Clarence Darrow
Me acostumbro pero no me amanso.
~ Clarice Lispector
Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.
~ Clarice Lispector
To win you've got to stay in the game.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Persistence is not defiance, but lawlessness is.
~ Unknown
Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
~ Clifton Adams
Work hard, keep your nose clean, and just stick around.
~ Clint Eastwood
Americans have an annoying habit of accomplishing what they set out to do.
~ Clive Cussler
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
~ Coco Chanel
Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
~ Herodotus
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
~ Herodotus
Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.
~ Hilari Bell
Dripping water pierces a stone.
~ Unknown
When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it--oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.
~ Hilary Mantel
And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man.
~ Hilary Mantel
Being alive is sign of strength!
~ Hiro Mashima
I will never give up... I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world... As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!
~ Hiro Mashima
Don't feel insecure just because you lost!! We are Fairy Tail! We're from the guild that doesn't know when to stop! We won't survive unless we keep running!
~ Hiro Mashima
If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets
~ Unknown
You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong.
~ Holly Black
You have a real talent for getting your ass kicked.
~ Holly Black
Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
~ Holly Black