Tenacious Quotes

• Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Success, Fate, Destiny

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

  Bear Grylls

  Dream, Giving Up, Winning

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• It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.

  Steve Ballmer

  Determine

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• I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Tough

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• Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Knowing, People, Prejudice

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6

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• 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

  Blood, Passionate, Pressure

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• As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Acting, Building, Force

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Patience, Perseverance, Work

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press

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• You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

  Christian Louboutin

  Believe, Needs, Genuine

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• The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

  Horace

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

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• I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.

  Jeff Tremaine

  Giving, Answers, Give Me

  Source: collider.com

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• Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Men, Self

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.

  Alain Badiou

  Giving Up, Real, Adventure

  Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Sunset

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

  John Eliot

  Happiness, Success, Confidence

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.148, Diversion Books

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• A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

  Georg Cantor

  Science, Power, Accepted

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

  Deeba

  Self, Hurdle, Ideals

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• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Self, Ego

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in place and prevent its soluble components from washing to the wasting sea.

  John James Ingalls

  Nature, Flower, Sea

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• 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

  Passion, Creativity, Expression

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

  Alice Neel

  Determination, World, Want

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• Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Hope, Goes On, Should

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gene Andrew Jarrett, Thomas Lewis Morgan (2005). “The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.182, Ohio University Press

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• A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters.

  Dacia Maraini

  Men, Encounters, Gains

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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