Quotes About Tenacity

If I can't have your babies, I'll damn sure deliver them!

That's hard core, Gin," Finn replied. "Very hard core. Kind of kinky too." A grim smile tightened my lips. "That's me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. ?#?Truth? serves only its slaves.

It was because I craved the drama of her ambivalence, the tenacity of her enthusiasm, the sting of her doubt. I read those books because I needed to be with her. Is it too much to say that I was in love with her? Who was she, anyway?

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The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

I have seen your dispatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke...

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

He had the look, it seemed to me, of a man who had awakened one day to find himself clinging to the cattle catcher of an express train: under the circumstances, all one could do was to hang on.

Winston Churchill once said to his fellow countrymen, "We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy." Today, thanks to a malign combination of litigation, regulation, and pedagogical fashion, sugar-candy people are everywhere.

Never despair. Never surrender.

When she was strong, she was unbeatable. When she was strong, she got things done.

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

What doesn't kill you will come back to finish the job.

When humans say that someone "is full of grit", they mean full of courage. Before long the sisters were to prove that they were filled with grit in both senses of the word.

Is it easy? No it ain't Can I fix it? No I cain't But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down

crowd holding its breath. I'll be fightin' til I'm six feet underground Her eyes were squeezed

Is it easy? She sang again. No it ain't. Can I fix it? No I can't. But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down

Hell's Kitchen.

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.