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Quotes About Tenacity

Don't let the bastards grind you down.
~ Margaret Atwood
Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.
~ Jim Brown
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
~ Boris Spassky
The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.
~ Tommy Barnett
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
~ Homer
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.
~ Rick Warren
I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.
~ Eugenie Bouchard
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.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
~ Amy Winehouse
We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk
~ Madonna Ciccone
If seizures can't stop me, nothing can.
~ L.M. Fields
I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
~ Serena Williams
At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.
~ Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
~ Albert Ellis
You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!
~ Stacey King
I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.
~ Julio Iglesias
One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.
~ William the Silent
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.
~ Quentin L. Cook