Quotes About Tenacity

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

I will never give up! As long as I'm still breathing, As long as I'm still standing, I will never give up.

I will succeed, not surrender.

Winning takes a simple attitude to try again and again even the world says you are wrong.

When everything else fails to work lets work ourselves.

I win or I die.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

If youre going through hell, keep going.

If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didnt run hard enough.

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done ...

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

I didn't take no for an answer. I've always been like that. If I think in my gut that I'm right, I do it. You have to have this kind of conviction. Otherwise, I would have given up many years ago. After the 1970s, all the performance artists started doing paintings and sculptures or architecture; performing was far too hard. I'm so happy I didn't give up.

Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the depths of eternity...

Don't go gittin faintified on me.

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

Now I shore as the devil won't waste no time tootlin' him. You know me better'n that. You know I'm made outen whale-bone and hell.' 'Ain't the whalebone gittin' a mite limber?' ''Tis, but the hell's hot as ever.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.

God is still honoring spiritual desperadoes who crash parties and climb trees. God is still honoring those who defy protocol with their bold prayers. God is still honoring those who pray with audacity and tenacity.

Success is a derivative of persistence.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

You can be successful even when you're getting pounded.

Americans don't like a quitter.