Quotes About Tenacity

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.

I love that mentality: 'Hey - you know what? - you may beat us, but by God we're going to beat the hell out of you.' I'd rather go down that way, with people that will go down swinging than, 'OK, let's accept losing.'

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

Quando Omni Flunkus Mortati

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Mr. Cramer is constantly leaping at the throat of evil and finding himself holding on for dear life to the tip of its tail.

Most of us survive the hardest things. We are quite resilient.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it again. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

Lo que importa no es necesariamente el tamaño del perro en la pelea, sino el tamaño de la pelea que lleva dentro el perro".

Whatever you do, do not back down.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

That is the rub of any conversion experience: We only realize how much we needed it when we are on the other side! That is why we need the tenacity of faith and hope to carry us across to most transformational experiences. When we can let others actually influence us and change us, our heart space is open.

You're not getting away from me. Never again.

We only fail when we stop trying.

Let her have her dangerous will.

It never occurred to her to give up.