Quotes About Tenacity

She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continues on despite them.

Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing?—and admirable?—but that following through and completing?—well, that's where the bravery is.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

They fall and endure. They live.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Persistence Pays...Period.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Never quit. Never give up.

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!