Quotes about Tenacity

The Spartan king Agesilaus was still fighting in armor when he was eighty-two. Picasso was painting past ninety, and Henry Miller was chasing women (I'm sure Picasso was too) at eighty-nine. Once we turn pro, we're like sharks who have tasted blood, or renunciants who have glimpsed the face of God. For us, there is no finish line. No bell ends the bout. Life is the pursuit. Life is the hunt. When our hearts burst... then we'll go out, and no sooner.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

And no matter what game they play We got something they can never take away

I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

I can accept failure but I can't accept not trying!

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

To be somebody, you must last.

Be the stone cliff against which the waves constantly break, standing firm against the fury of the sea.