Quotes of Tenacity - somelinesforyou

“ The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. ”

- Bible

“ Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ”

- Louis Pasteur

“ 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

“ Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time… ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Never tell your resolution beforehand. ”

- John Selden

“ There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Never try to outstubborn a cat. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice asonerous a duty. ”

- John Selden

“ Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ I am confident. I never give up. ”

- Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

“ If you've got the guts to stick it out… you're going to make it. ”

- Brian Hays

“ It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. ”

- Sydney Smith

“ It's always too soon to quit. ”

- David T. Scoates

“ Persevere and get it done. ”

- George Allen

“ The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ”

- Robert Wise

“ If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end. ”

- Charles Spurgeon

“ There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give it everything. ”

- Vince Lombardi

“ Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: / For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. ”

- Bible

“ We showed a lot of toughness and determination to come back from last night and not allow that to carry over. ”

- Steve Nash

“ God is with those who persevere. ”

- The Koran

“ As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication. ”

- John Moody

“ All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. ”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

“ 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 V. Forrestal

“ I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose… ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Luck is tenacity of purpose. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ 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
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