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Quotes About Tenacity

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying
~ John C. Maxwell
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.
~ Joseph Addison
Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
~ Soichiro Honda
In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
~ B. C. Forbes
The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.
~ Tony Robbins
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence.
~ Joyce Brothers
Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.
~ Amby Burfoot
Everyone starts strong. Success comes to those with unwavering commitment to be at the end.
~ Howard Schultz
90% of success is failure.
~ Soichiro Honda
Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.
~ Don Shula
Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
~ Lord Chesterfield
When you hear that something can't be done, ignore that advice and push forward.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Success is outliving your failures
~ Erma Bombeck
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
~ Marian Wright Edelman
A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.
~ Fred Thompson
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! ... I've failed my way to success.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares.
~ Charles R. Schwab
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
~ Steve Ballmer
Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.
~ Catherine Ponder
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
~ Donald Trump
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.
~ James Agee
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
~ Kurt Vonnegut