Quotes About Tenacity

My strength is also my endurance. I can bear anything and everything.

I am a beast!

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

I feel confident, especially about beating good players.

Better never begin than never make an end.

We shall go on and we shall fight it out, here or elsewhere, and if at last the long story is to end, it were better it should end, not through surrender, but only when we are rolling senseless on the ground.

You know what they say: If at first you don't succeed, f**k it.

The story of wolf killing illustrates the tenacity of two Euro-American conquering devices—folklore and property. Folklore fueled wolf hatred through rituals and legends codified into motifs and transmitted by word of mouth. Wolf lore survived by being remembered and retold, while property in the form of livestock also traveled across landscapes and lifetimes.

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time.

I always told myself tough times don't last tough people do... Keep pushing

I always told myself tough times don't last, but tough people do... Keep pushing

A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.

never stop trying and never try stopping

I like stubborn, wily survivors, and wish I could be one myself. So the next day I walked to his office, to extend my appreciation of his doggedness and to wish him a joyful time of it.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

we have to give are best or die

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth

Find your backbone, or be swallowed whole.

I think a lot about the word tenacity. What it takes to survive in a world that is sometimes beautiful and sometimes hostile. I'm always amazed at the body's willingness to continue, to keep going. The heart that keeps pumping, the lungs that keep breathing, the way the will to live can outsmart those other dark voices inside.

There's a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around