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Quotes About Tenacity

In life, take it head on. If that doesn't work, don't back down, keep trying until the brickwall that's blocking your path comes crashing down before you. Then, that's when you know you can easily over come your problems.
~ Unknown
If my childhood had given me anything, it was endurance.
~ Madeline Miller
roots clung hard a moment before yielding
~ Madeline Miller
I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next.
~ Madeline Miller
His voice was quiet. "You do not give things up so easily now as you once did," he said.
~ Madeline Miller
But endurance had always been my virtue, and I kept on.
~ Madeline Miller
A bitch with a cliff for heart.
~ Madeline Miller
Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
~ Madonna
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
~ Mae West
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
~ Manny Pacquiao
Ha sido más recio que la miseria y que la burla.
~ Unknown
He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, doth but half his work, Gal. vi. 9; Heb. xii. 1; 2 Cor. vii. 1.
~ John Owen
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
~ Unknown
Keep moving forward until we find something better to do, Hinchcliffe replied. Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn. I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant, Berg said with a grin. Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.
~ John Ringo
Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any
~ John Sandford
At least one tribe, the Geln, strongly opposed attacking the Colonial Union, since humans were reasonably strong, distressingly tenacious and not especially principled when they felt threatened.
~ John Scalzi
He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.
~ John Steinbeck
It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.
~ John Steinbeck
Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do. Well, thanks. We'll drag on." And he got in the truck and moved away.
~ John Steinbeck
Chorar é fácil; o difícil é aguentar firme.
~ John Steinbeck
Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.
~ John Steinbeck