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Quotes About Tenacity

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.
~ Ricky Schroder
Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.
~ Craig Silvey
If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.
~ Eddie Alvarez
I've been fighting my whole life.
~ Chuck Zito
I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
~ Helen Mirren
To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
~ Joan D. Chittister
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
~ Anna Paquin
I have based my life on being strong enough to do anything.
~ Montel Williams
Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).
~ Periander
I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
~ Sarah Louise Delany
I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.
~ Serena Williams
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
~ Theodore Roethke
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
~ Vonda N. McIntyre
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
~ Bear Grylls
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
~ Saul Bellow
Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
~ Venus Williams
Don't take no for an answer.
~ E. Lockhart
The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
~ E.W. Howe
Be tenacious.
~ Ed Kugler
He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it.
~ Edgar A Guest
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
Whose indomitable spirit changed the face of the earth for us.
~ Edmund Arthur Helps
It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.
~ Edmund Cooper