Quotes About Tenacity

The only business owners that fail are the ones who gave up.

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Entrepreneurship is enduring pain for a long time without relinquishing.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

I have passed all the physical hardships known to man.

I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

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Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

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The rest is usually just an inhuman amount of tenacious work.

Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.

They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!'

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for a long time. That speaks volumes for them.

Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.

I could be two sets, two legs down but I wouldn't think that. I take each leg as it comes.

I'm never going to settle for losing.

Most people settle in life, and that's not me.

I'm the type of personality who just can't settle for less.

I never settle.

When you get the shirt and a position in the team, you don't want to give it up.