Quotes About Tenacity

I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.

He was no genius, but he showed up and did the work, and most times that was all it took to succeed at anything in life.

Because sometimes fighting wasn't the strong choice or the smart choice. It was just the stubborn, proud choice.

When there is no longer any possibility of running away, you realize how fiercely you can fight.

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of compromise now. It's a fight to

He felt a bit like the von Ulrich house looked, battered and bombed and shot at but still standing.

But I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

But I tried, though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

I don't have big muscles. I'm not tall. I have power inside. I fight.

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Superhuman power is not strong enough.

They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence

Indomitable will, purposeful action

The heart's will is greater than the hand's strength.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

The stubbornness of his character stood him now in good stead. He refused to consider himself defeated.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.