Inspirational Tenacity Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Amelia Earhart

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned
the man who knew it, or the man who did not? — Oliver Sacks

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough. — Jason Mraz

These three things give meaning to life: dreams and aspirations which inspires confidence and direct actions and steps in the day, a person's ability to not just look but see distinctively, and a real and robust action with tenacity which make dreams realities. So many people sleep and they only sleep! So many people wake up and they don't see anything in the day from dawn to dusk! When you close your eyes, dream! When you open your eyes, see! When you take a step, take a definite action with the right attitude! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them. — Werner Heisenberg

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way. — Tom Althouse

A time past is an essence gone — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Set a challenge for yourself and challenge yourself to set a challenge for others to challenge themselves. True strength, true wisdom, true tenacity and true courage is best seen when it is in motion! Take action! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No matter how heavy the challenges we face in our life, embrace optimism, perseverance, tenacity and courage. Never lose faith and hope and a generous heart who live and breathes with a timeless love. — Angelica Hopes

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas A. Edison

Awake! there is always a reason to give up and there is always a reason to soldier on unrelentingly. Don't give up so easily on a true purpose just because you perceive an arduous errand. Arise for you can do something to overcome something! Look beyond what you look and awaken your inner man. Move! And you shall surely see a fabulous end! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'm not picky. When I'm hungry, I eat. — Sidney Crosby

Though not everything is so easy in doing, ponder before you say something is far difficult to do! When you think of the difficulty in getting it done, think and think again; you may have spent the same time you should have used for the utmost preparations that could have made the difficulty you look at but cannot see the panacea on something else, or you are not finding the necessary time, wit, courage, tenacity and the will power to release your whole and true self to master the very act and art of making difficult things easier! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to liberate Bangladesh. India went in when it was attacked, and left before its troops became unpopular. — Salil Tripathi

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I. — Pablo Picasso

I went into the can and shut the door before he had a chance to reply. And the next fifteen seconds or so were pure relief. Like beer, iced tea is something can can't buy, only rent. — Stephen King

Life is never a static journey. Life goes on! Life is about step taking. For everything I need to know about life, I need to take a step — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. — Lao-Tzu

But paradise is locked and bolted ...
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open. — Heinrich Von Kleist

My day will come, but until then, I patiently continue moving forward.
-Never allow yourself to become stagnant- — Andrea L'Artiste

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us. — Meg Jay

I don't have talent, I have tenacity. — Henry Rollins

Though your steps may falter
persevere with the climb,
You will achieve the summit
at the appropriate time. — Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again. — Danielle Bernock

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Titus Lucretius Carus

You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in. — Kamand Kojouri

Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

True success is not the end of the journey; true success is a journey without an end. So many people relax after achieving something and they forget the undone. They neglect their untapped destiny and they halt their journey of life not reaching their real and true destination. Whilst we have life, we must live life. Whilst we have life, we must give a true meaning to life. Whilst we have life, we must dare to do the undone; though the road is weary; though we may be having a sense of fulfillment, and though we might have done something! Let us awake and pursue with all zeal and tenacity until we get to the real end of our true purpose and destiny, such that long after we are gone, the voice of our footprints will speak to inspire, build and raise a generation of champions ! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq. — Chuck Hagel