Quotes About Tenacity

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When you are weighing whether to quit something or stick with it, you can't know for sure whether you can succeed at what you're doing because that's probabilistic. But there is a crucial difference between the two choices. Only one choice—the choice to persevere—lets you eventually find out the answer.

Contrary to popular belief, quitting will get you to where you want to go faster.

Quitting means failing, capitulating, losing. Quitting shows a lack of character. Quitters are losers (except, of course, when it involves giving up something obviously bad like smoking, alcohol, drugs, or an abusive relationship).

The English language itself favors grit, describing those who persevere with positive terms like can-do, unwavering, steadfast, resolute, daring, audacious, undaunting, gutsy, and hardy. Or as having backbone, pluck, mettle, tenacity, or stick-to-itiveness.

Or we don't leave a career we spent years training for, because that would mean our training was for nothing. Or we keep watching a bad movie because of the time we've already spent watching it.

As you already know, grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.

That we make both types of errors, sometimes sticking too long and sometimes giving up too early, shouldn't be that surprising because whether to stick or quit aren't separate decisions. They are one and the same. Whenever you choose to stick, you are, by definition, not quitting. The reverse is true when you choose to quit.

All these famous people, and countless others, have united behind variations of the expression "Quitters never win, and winners never quit.

You're never a loser til you quit trying.

I may not be the strongest. I may not be the fastest. But I'll be damned if I'm not trying my hardest.

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

If there's anything I'm proud of in my career, it's that I've been able to hang in there and keep progressing over the years.

If you really want something, you just have to promise yourself that you won't stop until it happens.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

Obviously, we've proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we'd be gone after a record or two, wrong.

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

It was necessary for him to have hope. So he built hope, desperately and tenaciously out of the stuff of his dream, a hope flimsy enough, to be sure, a hope that was cracked and dissipated a dozen times a day, a hope mothered by mockery, but, nevertheless, a hope that would be brawn and sinew to his self-respect.

I think the correct expression according to Kathryn would be, 'sit on a pointy stick and twirl around,' or, in other words, 'perch, pivot, and rotate.

Why would anyone in their right mind continue as I

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.