Tenacity Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Determination, Inspiration, Half

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Overcoming, Obstacles, Courses

  91 Copy quote

• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  45 Copy quote

• Luck is tenacity of purpose.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Luck, Purpose

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

  67 Copy quote

• Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Luck

  4 Copy quote

• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  Harper Lee

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

  William Graham Sumner

  Dream, Sunset, Men

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perseverance, Giving, Goal

  9 Copy quote

• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  97 Copy quote

• 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.

  Maurice Ashley

  Heart, Long, Opinion

  7 Copy quote

• These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Greek, Quality, Three

  Source: www.archdaily.com

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing in this 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.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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

  182 Copy quote

  Show source

• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Cat, Next Day, Yellow

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Start small and dream big.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

  27 Copy quote

• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

  7 Copy quote

• I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Fighting, Age

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Determination, Creativity, Fighting

  Source: www.blogher.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big.

  Aliko Dangote

  Dream, Successful, Bigs

  83 Copy quote

• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Pills

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Character, Adversity, People

  48 Copy quote

• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

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

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can do anything you decide to do.

  Amelia Earhart

  Decision, Process Of Change, Procedures

  "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote