Quotes About Tenacity

You know the old saying, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Well, if you always get out as soon as the kitchen gets hot, your life will end up half-baked.

The more anxious and alone or inadequate and incompetent they feel, the more tenaciously they hold to whatever thoughts, attitudes and behaviors bring relief. If they do not develop more effective coping mechanisms, the ones that bring relief solidify into self-defeating behaviors.

a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.

A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on

How many times should you try before you give up? If you want something bad enough, you will keep trying until. Until what? Until you succeed.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

110, 111 whatever it takes!"Michael Keaton character in Mr. Mom

It's not over till the fat lady eats!

I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug.Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep.

Balls to ten minutes.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.