Quotes About Tenacity

I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.

In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.

Regardless of gender, one has to be willing to take what belongs and what has been promised, by not backing down and by not giving up. Never be willing to throw in the towel and accept defeat!

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

La valentía de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinación por sobrevivir.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. —ALBERT EINSTEIN1

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

What was it Beckett wrote? 'I can't go on. I'll go on.' Story of my life.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it.

It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

I'm about to give up, but I stop. I always try to last at least three minutes longer than giving up.

My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

I underestimated her. I under-estimated her grit. She

Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.