Tanacious Quotes & Sayings

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself. — Mary J. Blige

Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. — Cunningham Geikie

When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am. — Robert Kurson

I was overwhelmed with gratitude that such greatness and nobility survived in the most degraded situation. I felt that the eternal spirit, which exists in all people, could be accessible despite the circumstances. Maybe there was still hope for the world, if some could remain untouched and pure in the midst of all the insanity! I learned that the hope that the world will be a place where all people will love their neighbors as themselves is alive as long as there is one person alive practicing it on the earth. — O. Hakan Palm

Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve. — Tara Mohr

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world. — Trevor Noah

Start over again. Concentrate." [to a young Ernest Hemingway] — Gertrude Stein

A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird. — Bill Hader

The Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love. — Pope Leo I

I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles. — Charles Bukowski

I didn't see it as someone who worked as hard as I did. But now that Saint Laurent is part of history, it makes me a part of history, so, yes, finally it's not such a bad thing to have been a muse. — Loulou De La Falaise

Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God — Rick Riordan

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck) — Frank Chase Jr

I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me. — Patricia Marx