Quotes About Tenacity

Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Patient plodding produces durable results.

If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. – If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. – Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. – Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives

That woman," Bandar liked to say of the British prime minister, "was a hell of a man.

Here to win. Not to make 'em mad

Just do what Colonel Sanders did." At the age of 66, he lost his business and began to live on his Social Security check. It wasn't enough. He went around the country selling his recipe for fried chicken. He was turned down 1,009 times before someone said yes. And he went on to become a multimillionaire at an age when most people are quitting. "He was a brave and tenacious man," rich dad said of Harlan Sanders.

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.

Be one of those rare people who just don't know how to quit.

To continue at a time when you ache to stop. To advance when you long to quit. To persist in the instant when you feel like giving up is to claim your membership among the great warriors and honorable characters who led humanity to a better place through their earned invincibility.

When you feel like surrendering, continue. Triumph loves the relentless.

Cuando tengas ganas de rendirte, continúa. El triunfo ama a los implacables.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog' insight

The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.

Rise First. Die Last.

observó el señor Riley— tienen menos capacidad innata que aquellos con los que compiten. Pero son su dedicación, su compromiso y su tenacidad para optimizar cualquiera de sus potencialidades lo que los convierten en iconos.

The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead." And

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room

He had a great general's ability to focus on his goals and brush aside obstacles as petty distractions. "You can abuse me, you can strike me," Rockefeller said, "so long as you let me have my own way.

He was not a man to abandon a project that had received his blessing.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.