Quotes About Tenacity

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

It takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.

When Hell freezes over, I'll curl there, too.

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.

Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.

Till Hell freezes over.

Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up

You said that what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.

Prosperity depends on ferocity.

A failure is not a reason to stop. It's a reason to start again, and harder.

I don't mind proving myself again and again.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.