Quotes About Tenacity

you should not allow yourself to be convinced by repeated failures,

Sometimes annoyance will keep you going when booze and fear and hope are as dead as the Big Bopper.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head but once there, there was no shifting it.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*

There is nothing as weak as water, but when it attacks and is persistent, nothing can withstand it. -Lao Tse

People fall down and stay down

Impossible situations are our specialty.

Stop bitching and try again.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

This is how we must always be—strong and resilient, no matter what's around us.

You've done your worst, but you haven't seen what I can do yet.

The venerable cypress clings doggedly to its rocky perch, its branches spreading wide and high into the sky. 'See how it stands proudly, even in such inhospitable conditions?' our father used to say. 'This is how we must always be - strong and resilient, no matter what's around us.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

The actor Mark Ruffalo went to six hundred auditions before he got his first break. Six hundred NOs before the first YES.

You always have a choice, she spat. You fight until you see you're beaten, and then you keep on fighting.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

Not bleedin' likely, Aunt Nanny Goat. I toughened my feet for karate—I can break a four-by-nine with my feet and get nary a bruise. Or run on sharp gravel.

Never try to outstubborn a cat

Tough is what you do, more than it is how you feel about it before or after," I said. "You're tough enough.

During the assault on Fallujah, Marine commanders intercepted an enemy radio conversation and heard an insurgent say, "We are fighting, but the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop.

novel True Grit by Charles Portis