List of 50 Quotes About Tenacity and Never Giving Up:
#1 Jack Ma
”The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.”
#2 Judy Sheindlin
”A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.”
#3 Andy Dunn
”Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture’s failure.”
#4 Ralph Waldo Emerson
”I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.”
#5 Thomas A. Edison
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.”
#6 Tawny Lara
”The more I accomplish, the more I know I’m capable of accomplishing.”
#7 Ramana Maharshi
”No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
#8 Louis Pasteur
”Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
#9 Sonia Choquette
”Tenacity is when you follow your heart, when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head.”
#10 Oprah Winfrey
”Your life’s work is to find your life’s work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it.”
#11 Danielle Bernock
“I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.”
#12 Brent Spiner
”I really think that success in this field is about tenacity and just sticking with it.”
#13 Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March”
#14 John Quincy Adams
”Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
#15 Winston Churchill
”If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
#16 Chin-Ning Chu
”To succeed in life in today’s world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.”
#17 Valerie M. Hudson
”Tenacity is the mother of progress.”
#18 Benjamin Disraeli
”Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”
#19 Toni Bernhard
“People can be at their most vulnerable, but still tenacious at the same time.”
#20 Adam West
”If you hang around long enough, they think you’re good. It’s either my tenacity or stupidity – I’m not sure which.”
#21 B. F. Skinner
”A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
#22 Craig D. Lounsbrough
”To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.”
#23 Ana Monnar
“I’m happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.”
#24 Og Mandino
”I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.”
#25 Giorgio Armani
”I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.”
#26 Thomas Huxley
“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.”
#27 Linda Urban
“Just keep playing.”
#28 Julia Cameron
“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”
#29 Lao Tzu
“Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield … what is soft is strong.”
#30 Albert Einstein
”It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
#31 Jason Mraz
“I won’t give up. Even if the skies get rough.”
#32 Maurice Ashley
”His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.”
#33 Louis D. Brandeis
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
#34 Amelia Earhart
”The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.”
#35 Halle Berry
”By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.”
#36 Jacob A. Riis
”Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
#37 H.G. Wells
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
#38 Julia Hartz
”I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.”
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#39 Terry Pratchett
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
#40 Theodore Roosevelt
“When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
#41 Ralph Bunche
”To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.”
#42 William Feather
”Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
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#43 Paul Sweeney
”A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
#44 Maya Angelou
”You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
#45 James A. Michener
”Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
#46 F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
#47 Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
#48 Mary Anne Radmacher
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”
#49 James A. Michener
”Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
#50 Thomas Carlyle
”Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
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References https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Carlyle https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-carlyle
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