Tenacity Quotes - Page 2

• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Courage, Rocks, African American

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• If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

  Matt Martin

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

  John W. Gardner

  Discipline, Excellence, Purpose

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.103, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  "Critiques and Addresses".

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• The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Order, Mind

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “The Art of Life”, p.22, Penguin

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• 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

  Reality, Goal, Achievement

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

  George Clooney

  Mom, Lessons, Taught

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• The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.84, Penguin Books India

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• There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

  Terry Pratchett

  Letting Go, Children, People

  "Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

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• 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

  Hard Work, Optimistic, Focus

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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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• Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Funny, Dog, Fall

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• 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

  Hands, Careers, Quality

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.225, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Optimistic, Mean, Work Out

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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Humility, Vanity

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• 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

  Courage, Prosperity, Capacity

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• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Failure, Men, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how

  Tupac Shakur

  Rose, Thank God, Sun

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• In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

  Aliko Dangote

  Journey, Purpose, Supreme

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• When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

  Jean Giono

  Spring, Taken, Greatness

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• 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

  Bravery, Principles, Fur

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