Quotes About Tenacious

Sublime characters are stubborn.

Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms.

he was tough as nails and motivated as hell.

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

The white racist has ruled the world for a long time, and the crises we are undergoing now are involved with the fact that the habits of power are not only extremely hard to lose; they are as tenacious as some incurable disease.

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

I am more aggressive than others, being a sportsman.

I believe that you meet people who are vital to your transformation only when the conditions are right, when the tenacious concerns of the unconscious break into awareness. Then such kindred spirits are drawn to each other like iron shavings to a magnet.

I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?

New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.

I have never seen anybody, and I don't think there has ever been anybody like Nick Diaz in all of MMA. Can you tell me another guy who is going to stand right in front of you, take big shots, and still keep coming at you with those body shots and those amazing combinations?

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

Magellan refused to be swayed by the ambassador's entreaties.

prototypical "tough" New

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

We are relentless. We don't compromise grace. But when we hunt, we're vicious.

one tough son of a bitch

From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.

Lincoln's "campaign" for president ended how and where it began: in adamant silence, and in the same Illinois city to which he had so tenaciously clung since the national convention. Like the solar eclipse that had obscured the Illinois sun in July, Lincoln remained in Springfield, hidden in full view.

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

I guess I would use one word to describe myself: determined.

If there's one word to describe North Carolinians, it's resilient.