Tenacious Quotes

“Tenacity is essential for accomplishment in anything you do. Without drive, determination and a strong-willed attitude, one's level of success at many endeavors will be limited in scope.”

“Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even, instead of constructing a new grown-up life for herself. For years she'd been eating the cold crumbs left over from a great feast, living on them as though they could last her forever.”

“He finds he cannot think of the dying men at all. Into his mind instead strays the picture of More on the scaffold, seen through the veil of rain: his body, already dead, folding back neatly from the impact of the axe. The cardinal when he fell had no persecutor more relentless than Thomas More. Yet, he thinks, I did not hate him. I exercised my skills to the utmost to persuade him to reconcile with the king. And I thought I would win him, I really thought I would, for he was tenacious of the world, tenacious of his person, and had a good deal to live for. In the end he was his own murderer. He wrote and wrote and he talked and talked, then suddenly at a stroke he cancelled himself. If ever a man came close to beheading himself, Thomas More was that man.”

“The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.”

“Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.”

“Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious”

“…..she needed him to know she did not care. She was spirited, tenacious, and full of contempt for him.”

“I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy”

“A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!”