Quotes About Tenacity

There is no way to completely fail unless you completely quit.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.

Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.

The game honors toughness

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

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

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

With will one can do anything.

You cannot stop. If there is a concrete wall in front of you, you have to go through it. You can never, ever give up or even think in terms of giving up.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.