Quotes About Being Tenacious

#1. I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

Neil Burger

#2. A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.

Tabatha Coffey

#3. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Beth Moore

#4. I'm not crazy, but several of my other personalities are.

Allen Parker

#5. Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say ... but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

Alain De Botton

#6. Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.

Justin Timberlake

#7. If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.

Robby Gordon

#8. The successful writer listens to himself.

Frank Herbert

#9. The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

Pema Chodron

#10. It is the most fundamental thing I know about being alive: Everything that lasts is invention followed by tenacious faith.

Alexander Maksik

#11. [W]hat seems like madness at its inception will become the way things have always been if you give it enough time.

Mira Grant

#12. Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.

Victor Hugo

#13. Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.

Mary Lawrence

#14. Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome

Barney Stinson

#15. I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Owen Wister