Quotes About Tenacity

Churchill saw the relationship in succinct terms. "Some take drugs," he said. "I take Max.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down.

Through endurance we conquer.

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

And this,' he was saying aloud. 'And this. And this.

And pain does not matter to a man.

In life, one must (first) last. ("Dans la vie, il faut [d'abord] durer.")

The thousand times he had proved it meant nothing. Now he was proving it again.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

Need to put footstep of courage into stirrup of patience.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through. We'll

Yet despite its widespread denunciation, infidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.

Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so too has the taboo against it. It has been legislated, debated, politicized, and demonized throughout history. Yet despite its widespread denunciation, infidelity has a tenacity that marriage can only envy.

I'll take on the whole lot of them! I'll put up a fight against the lot of them, the whole lot of them! I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to conviction of honor and good sense.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

it'll come down to more shoe leather on my part,

Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.

Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which tamely surrendered were finished.

Many people say I ought to have retired after the war, and have become some sort of elder statesman, but how could I? I have fought all my life and cannot give up fighting now!

pluck, courage, resourcefulness

take it.' London could take anything. My heart goes

Hope can be a source of strength, but when it fails to deliver what I want, I've found a good degree of stubbornness to be an appropriate substitute.