Quotes About Tenacious

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

I'm very, very persistent... I mean, fine, I'm pushy.

Some people have called me pushy. Well, I call it determined.

I'm a fixer by nature.

I am a focused person. I am a fighter.

Cara didn't bother to respond. She knew Jessica was like the Royal Canadian Mounted Police—she always got her man.

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

I'm a testiculate animal, Ferdinand, and when I have a fact, I hang on to it for dear life

He discovered a great ambition to excel, which roused him to counteract his indolence. He was uncommonly inquisitive; and his memory was so tenacious, that he never forgot any thing that he either heard or read. Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses, which, after a little pause, he repeated verbatim, varying only one epithet, by which he improved the line.

Since his return from Afghanistan, he'd been unable to shake off the effects of spending almost a year in a war zone. They clung to him like a spiderweb, so fine as to be invisible, yet as tenacious as steel and, so far, impossible to escape.

death, how I imagined it, I said that the pictures would stop. Evidently I saw as pictures what Americans refer to as Experience. I wasn't at the moment thinking of the pictures newly available, recently offered by technology—the kind of tour one now might take of one's digestive tract, or of the heart. The heart—only a group of muscles after all. But how tenacious they are, starting to beat in the womb, and going in rhythm for as long as a century.

I'm a finisher. I'm a shark, and if I see blood, I'm gonna finish you.

The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end

He's a tough little son of a biscuit eater. (Bubba)

The brave are always stubborn

I could not stop feeling panic, as if the Barton family, the five of us--off-kilter as we had been--was a structure over me I had not even known about until it ended...I saw how our roots were so tenaciously around one another's hearts. My husband said, "But you didn't even like them." And I felt especially frightened after that.

I'm pretty gritty.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion…. A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

You're a persistent cuss, pilgrim