Tenacity Quotes
165 quotes
"Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny."
"Prayer is asking God to incarnate, to get dirty in your life. Yes, the eternal God scrubs floors. For sure we know he washes feet. So take Jesus at his word. Ask him. Tell him what you want. Get dirty. Write out your prayer requests; don't mindlessly drift through life on the American narcotic of busyness. If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his garment and don't let go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day."
Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
"When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice."
"Embrace who you are and your divine purpose. Identify the barriers in your life, and develop discipline, courage and the strength to permanently move beyond them, and keep moving forward."
"Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small."
"Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power."
"I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar."
"Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity"
"At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough."
"I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path. For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible."
"Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come."
"The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win"
"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."
"I honor you for every timethis year you:got back upvibrated highershined your lightand loved and elevatedbeyond—the call of duty."
"A very unwise man once said, “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” A very annoyed woman once said, “He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long."
"The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first."
"If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends."
"The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?"
"Bravery is not found in getting knocked down. Rather, bravery is found is getting back up knowing that you’re going to get knocked down again."
"To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place."
"Because I have ‘chosen’ to see something as impossible, there’s a good chance that it’s not."
"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."
"You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in."
"Sometimes great achievements arrive much later than we expect, but they arrive, and they are great."
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."
"Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great."
"Beauty is seen in repetition; keep repeating your beauty even if your beauty is not all that beautiful, you shall still leave a mark and there shall come a moment when the beauty will be seen"
"Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so destitute that they will squelch my soul and crush my heart."
Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
"Where there is insistence, there is tenacity and where there is tenacity, there is anguish."
"There should be no tenacity of insistence or obstinate insistence of any kind. If there is any tenacity, it should be the kind that will go away if you tell it to!"
"Starting over is opportunity informed by failure, which is opportunity made intelligent."
"Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button."
"When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens"
"it may seem so easy to take it easy but, it is never so easy to take it easy"
"Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life."
"In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend."
"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"
"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!"
"Tenacity is what it takes to dare unrelentingly"
"great men take and overtake risk tactically"
"A clear line of distinctness must be drawn between the environment of the body and the environment of the mind or both the body and the mind be regarded as intertwined and be deprived of strength and efficiency. When the body is in crises, the mind must not be and when the mind is in crises, the body must not be. Such is tenacity and nimbleness"
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
"If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down."
"The bottom line is that no matter what you’ve experiencedin life, no matter what kind of trauma you’ve been through,no matter what bad decisions you’ve made, if you accept therealities of your situation, you can properly address them witha plan and with action."
"With God, a mountain before me is soon to be a memory behind me."
"Because you made it here on a lot less" he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is."
"A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up."
"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."
"We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’."
"...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older."
Angela Duckworth, Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
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