Quotes About Tenacity

I'm competitive and I don't want to get out, but it's not the end of the world.

If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I'm not gonna call myself the little engine that could because I'm 5'10 and I'm far from little - I'm the little engine that roared.

I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.

Now I don't have a coach; I'm just by myself. I'm enjoying this change, and I hope it will help my game.

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

But I'm going to play with the same passion and desire every night, and nobody's going to change that. Not referees. Nobody.

You have to be a real live dog to come out there and compete every night.

Si sus hombres tuvieran las agallas y la constancia de aquella mujer, en aquel momento serían dueños del mundo entero.

Ella conocía el rigor de la existencia, y sabía que las personas respondían más allá incluso de donde era previsible o de donde se pudiera sostener que era soportable. Injusticias, palizas, violaciones, humillaciones... ¡crueldad!, y sin embargo la propia vida, instintivamente, se agarraba con tenacidad a la más mortecina de las luces.

Nothing to do but just keep moving, keep stepping. Don't stop, or it'll catch you. If it catches you, it's over, the dance is done, and there's nothing left but to lie down and close your eyes. So just keep moving.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

It is always necessary to remain barbarians, because it is the barbarians who always win.

Undertakings based on an inner tenacity have to be mute and obscure; one has only to declare or glory in them and it all appears silly, without meaning, even petty.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

There will be no fucking sunsets in the pages that follow.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

I am a rat, and I am gnawing. I am a rat.