Quotes About Tenacity

#1. It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying. Slowly, fighting every inch of the way with a grim tenacity, but indubitably dying. Her vital ardour had sunk below the mark from which it could rise again, and was now ebbing as water runs from a little crack in a pitcher.

John Buchan

#2. Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

Kim Hyun-joong

#3. A lot of people that I started out with, I don't know where they are. I guess it takes tenacity to still be doing this, and luck, but I've been very blessed.

Dennis Quaid

#4. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

#5. There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don't get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.

Chris Hadfield

#6. Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

Terry Tempest Williams

#7. Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

Momofuku Ando

#8. At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succeed in their careers. It takes not just skills but also extreme dedication and commitment. And regardless of gender, CEOs are measured by the same criteria - the growth and success of the business.

Susan Wojcicki

#9. The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

Buzz Aldrin

#10. Marathons are about tenacity as much as talent.

John Bingham

#11. It was in vain for Madame Defarge to struggle and to strike; Miss Pross, with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate, clasped her tight, and even lifted her from the floor in the struggle that they had.

Charles Dickens

#12. if she wanted anything in this world, she had to hold on with bulldog tenacity until she got it.

Gerri Russell

#13. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.

Clay Clark

#14. Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Ned Yost

#15. A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Jack Ma

#16. Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

Eric Sevareid

#18. Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!

William Foege

#19. Tenacity runs thick in the veins of a villain.

Cheyanne Young

#20. TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. If you think that, then you, sir, are just as unacquainted with my sort of tenacity. I'd sooner let rats crawl out of my ass."

"Actually, maybe I'll stay," Enosh said. "That might prove amusing.

K.S. Villoso

#22. I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Dick Van Dyke

#23. There are no overnight success. It's a combination of humility, sacrifices, tenacity, failure, and opportunity.

Timi Nadela

#24. One needs great tenacity and a tremendous will to begin such an enterprise at all. And I should like to say this to you: If I had this faith, I had it only because I knew the people and because I had no doubts as to the quality of the German people.

Adolf Hitler

#25. LOVE JUNKIE travels tenderly and boldly into the despair, isolation, and tenacity of sex and love addiction. Rachel Resnick's gift for language and storytelling craft a vivid picture of her journey and her heart shines pure.

Kelly McDaniel

#26. Stretch an unwavering tenacity when facing bad to worse attitudes.

Angelica Hopes

#27. Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

Jocelyn Murray

#28. It is not advisable to hasten development, because everything needs time. Patience, perseverance and tenacity are fundamental conditions of the development. The pains taken in one's development will be amply rewarded.

Franz Bardon

#29. Ya know, America's a great country. It's great because it allows you to fight. And you can win, if you have the stamina and tenacity.

Jim Brown

#30. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Thomas J. Stanley

#31. Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.

Mike Tyson

#32. Baby, you've got enough strength and tenacity to take
down drug dealers. You'll be fine.

Katie McGarry

#33. Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish.

Dada Bhagwan

#34. Tenacity is when you follow your heart - when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head

Sonia Choquette

#35. Things did change. He'd gone from being eaten up with jealousy of Simon, to a grudging respect for his tenacity and courage, to actually considering him a friend, though he doubted he'd ever say so out loud

Cassandra Clare

#36. Tenacity, in some an admirable quality, is no substitute for the ability to change, for what in one age might be considered tenacious in another would most certainly be called cowardly.

Michael Blumlein

#37. Psalm 77 ~ The Tenacity of Faith I cry out to Yahweh. I cry out fervently, Because I know He hears me. There may be a wait, But I know He will answer, And He will not be late.

Jeff Doles

#38. I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

Mark Lanegan

#39. Very few individuals have the tenacity and the love to propel them beyond everything they know and can trust to face the unknown, let alone be absorbed in it.

Frederick Lenz

#40. Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.

Jen Sincero

#41. You can certainly have days where you feel your goals are insurmountable. However, you exhibit true tenacity when you can climb toward the insurmountable peak and begin to see the clear skies above.

Richard Keller

#42. Tenacity isn't just the most important thing, it's the only thing.

Mavis Leno

#43. I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

Morgan Fairchild

#44. I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

Ana Monnar

#45. I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion

Kurt Hahn

#46. Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.

David Eagleman

#47. Tenacity is a virtue, but it's not always crucial for everyone to observe
how hard you work at something.

Randy Pausch

#48. Your success and usefulness in the world is going to be measured by your confession and by the tenacity with which you "hold fast" that confession under all circumstances.

F. F. Bosworth

#49. Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality

Earl Nightingale

#50. The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Clarence Darrow

#51. It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#52. Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

Bret Anthony Johnston

#53. Bold. Ruthless. Energy. Action. Tenacity. Hunger. That was what B-R-E-A-T-H was.

Karen Marie Moning

#54. Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

Chris Murray

#55. Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life ...

Adolf Hitler

#56. There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

Chris Murray

#57. The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#58. My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

Wilma Mankiller

#59. Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.

Orison Swett Marden

#60. Whilst you have not yet reached the finishing line, work hard with diligence and tenacity!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.

Jimmy Chin

#62. Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

Bob Filner

#63. The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

Odilon Redon

#64. Because despair was an excess that did not belong to him, he submitted to what was left of his life, and began again to look after it, with the unyielding tenacity of a gardener at work the morning after the storm.

Alessandro Baricco

#65. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

Fauja Singh

#66. Human beings have a great capacity for sticking to false beliefs with great passion and tenacity,

Bruce H. Lipton

#67. Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new, healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

Curtis Stone

#68. The signature of a truly enviable woman is the tenacity and continuity of her women friends.

Wendy Wasserstein

#69. Vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate,

Charles Dickens

#70. It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Ingrid Betancourt

#71. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.

Geoff Watts

#72. You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to keep doing it even when you can no longer explain why you would even try.

Catherine Cruzan

#73. If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

Philippe Petit

#74. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

John W. Gardner

#75. Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand of the man whom she loved, the man of her life. So if in her sleep she pressed Tomas hand with such tenacity, we can understand why: she had been training since childhood.

Milan Kundera

#76. love was simply the tenacity to make sure that the other half of your heart knew he, or she, was adored in every way.

Tillie Cole

#77. The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win

Sunday Adelaja

#78. Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity.


Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.

John C. Maxwell

#79. At the end of the day, your level of success is going to be determined by the power of your imagination, the level of your determination and tenacity.

Clay Clark

#80. WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

Sathya Sai Baba

#81. Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.

Wildbow

#82. Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Felix Dennis

#83. Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

Ernst Otto Fischer

#84. Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.

Michael Dickinson

#85. Recognize the beauty in truth and tenacity.

Brene Brown

#86. If you want the most out of the people who work for you, then you need to commit yourself to them with the same tenacity you want them to have for you.

Jimmy Turner

#87. The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

J. Edgar Hoover

#88. If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#89. You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.
"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.
Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection.

Jill Shalvis

#90. Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#91. It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.

Jandy Nelson

#92. By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Halle Berry

#93. The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

Max Von Stephanitz

#94. GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

#95. The first step is the hardest in every
journey of dreams. There is nothing
else to fear unto whosoever has shown
the tenacity to begin; because, once
having started, the hardest part of the
mission is the one lying behind.

Moffat Machingura

#96. Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#97. Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Valerie Jarrett

#98. If I have anything, it's tenacity.

Hal Sparks

#99. In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.

Eddie Izzard

#100. Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well ...

James Forrestal