Quotes About Tenacity

If there is one thing I have learned in all my many last stands, it is that death is never certain, only… extremely likely.

Jurand! Still… Juranding, then???

Shenkt had his work, and he would see it through to the end, however bitter. Just as he always did. Some stories, after all, are only suited to bitter endings.

Live pretty or die laughing, but don't you run. Don't you fucking run.

What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

She banged the stick against the side of the pipe, drew it back, and lanced it at the porcupine. "I'll be a candle right up your ass, you don't keep waddling, fat boy," she half sang, half choked. He

Harper had had enough of the porcupine and enough of the drainage pipe. She scooped the stick right under his rear end and shoved him along ahead of her. She felt this had the makings of a new Olympic sport: porcupine curling. The

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good, no matter how much of a beating it takes. You're okay. You'll always be okay.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

try and try again. if you give up then good for you kiddo.

We broke and ran. The squirrel, however, was not a quitter. Glancing over my shoulder, I saw that it was in fact gaining on us, and Leonard's cussing was having absolutely no effect, other than to perhaps further enrage the animal, who might have had Baptist leanings. We

I'm always ready," Leonard said. "They pulled me out of my mama, I was ready for lunch and a fistfight.

Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets.

Keep on keeping on!!!

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!

Life is strong stuff, some of us can bear more of it than others.

Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

Backing down can become a way of life.