Quotes About Tenacity

sometimes not quitting was all you had left.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

Posso resumir em três palavras o que aprendi sobre a vida: a vida continua.

Image: An Oak Tree. The oak that resists the wind loses its branches one by one, and with nothing left to protect it, the trunk fi nally snaps. The oak that bends lives long er, its trunk grow ing wider, its roots deeper and more tenacious.

Persistence of little progress wins over brute force.

And you take any consequences on the chin. You shoulder them because you know nothing can make you buckle. What people don't realize is that discomfort is temporary.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

Bareh tu hazar dafa!

And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Rachel candy.

You should be dead, he said, his voice full of wonder. How is it that you're still alive? Jaw clenched, I worked at his grip on me, trying to get my fingers between him and my wrist. I work hard at it.

Build: Vookworm, but tough

I wouldn't miss it for the world." Al could just suck my toes and die.

Best to keep running. Run in the same way one would run on the hunt, just as hard and steady, just as long. Indeed given what was at stake it made sense to go much longer than when on the hunt. Run right through his second wind, run until the rare and elusive third wind filled him, then run some more.

God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often

If you are looking for something, don't go sit on the seashore and expect it to come and find you; you must search, search, search with all the stubbornness in you!

Take it out, then.

All at once Mari understood why people fought losing battles —because if you want something badly enough, you can't do anything else but fight for it.

What would Ripley do? When in a jam, Carrow often thought of how Ellen Ripley, the legendary badasstress of the Alien quadrilogy, would figure her way out.

This raccoon ain't treed just yet. . . .

Nonetheless, onward. That was the circus's battle cry, the motto Ren lived by.

but love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.