Quotes About Tenacity

I may not be strong, but I am fierce

Like Atlas, I have broad shoulders. I can carry a grudge to the crack of doom.

What do most people do? When there's a tree in the way they grab that axe, dull or not, and start whaling away at it. And if they

Impossible just takes a little longer.

And being stubborn. "Why don't you just let me get up there?" I said, trying to

Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jungle fever (so cold it burned, his skin glacial), each strand of black a testament to being alive afterwards.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

And maybe it's like that with every important aspect of your life. Whatever it is you are pursuing, whatever it is you are seeking, whatever it is you are creating, be careful not to quit too soon.

We can do it, whether it can be done or not." Eventually, all of us will be called upon to do the thing that cannot be done.

For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.

I MYSELF HAVE CLUNG TO EXISTENCE LIKE A BARNACLE TO A BOAT BOTTOM

Most dangerously of all, such thinking assumes that if you cannot win, then you must not continue to play.

Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: "You think you can scare me off? I've got another eighty years to wear you down! There are people who haven't even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday—that's how long I plan to stick around.

I saw it as proof that you must never surrender, that no doesn't always mean no, and that miraculous turns of fate can happen to those who persist in showing up.

stubbornness helps when it comes to the business of creative

A man who sets a course and proceeds to sail it, no matter the barriers or odds, is very admirable in my opinion.

precisely because she was

Courage is inherent in all creatures; it is the quality that keeps them alive, because they endure.

I believe you would square off at Satan if he came around and inconvenienced you!

Sometimes it pays to fight back, even when everyone says it would be better to give up.

And early on I learned that no one gives you anything for free. If you really care about something, if you really want something, you have to fight for it.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

notwithstanding

and so tough that it cannot be worked with ordinary tools.