Quotes About Tenacity

And tomorrow we'll do the same again. And again. Until one day you get up and find out that whatever it was didn't kill you after all.

You're not especially strong, or fast, or bright. Don't think you are. But you'll have the stubborness to wear down anyone stronger, or faster, or brighter than yourself.

Lost a fight?' he'd asked, still out of breath. 'The fight isn't over until you win it

The Outislanders have a word for that courage. Finblead, they call it, the last blood, and they believe that a special fortitude resides in the final blood that remains in any person before they fall. According to tales, only then can one find and use that sort of courage.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. Or the horse.

Lost a fight?" he'd asked, still out of breath. "The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.

Being fearless doesn't mean having an absence of fear. It means you press on in spite of fear.

If you can't be brave, be determined. And you'll end up in the same place.

Lisa Scottoline

Weak people abound, strong people abide.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

But there was nothing left to do but continue

I am the Fiercest of the Fierce.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

Ivan: ] "... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell." [Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.

Desperately, Cordelia stuck her foot through the whatchamacallit foot-holder, stirrup, grabbed, and heaved. The saddle slid slowly around the horse's belly, and Cordelia with it, till she was clinging underneath among a forest of horse legs. She fell to the ground with a thump and scrambled out of the way. The horse twisted its neck around and peered at her, in a dismay much milder than her own, then stuck its rubbery lips to the ground and began nibbling up weeds.

Buck up, suck it up, don't fuck it up

MAMA Well, little boys' hides ain't as tough as Southside roaches. You better get over there behind the bureau. I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......

Well, I've often been wrong, but this time I was right and they had to pay mind to me or bury me, and mine is a breed that dies hard.

Folks in the wagon train figured Ma would turn back, but they hadn't known Ma so long as I had. Once she set her mind to something she wasn't about to quit.

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There

If I catch you on my back trail, no matter what you're hunting, I'll stake each of you to six feet of northern Arizona that nobody will ever take away from you.