Quotes About Tenacity

There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.

On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Optimism More and more I have come to admire resilience. Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.

Never underestimate small things, Captain, they have to be meaner than larger ones to survive.

To finish first you have to first finish.

No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.

She was so strong a ship could have been hewn from her body.

Joe's scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there.

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard.

Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

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

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

Berlin, "Try, Try Again, or Maybe Not," New

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.

There are 2 rules in life: Number 1- Never quit Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

It takes maturity and tenacity on our part to achieve wholeness, and that means persistently dealing with our pain.

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it.