Top 159 Tenacious Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.
Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.
BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me.
I don't really analyze my process. I do know that if it's not right, I won't move on. I'm tenacious to a fault about that.
I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
I'm tenacious and no is not a good answer to give me.
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.
I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
I think women directors have to be really tenacious.
I've picked passion-driven businesses where I create a concept, or produce a film, from scratch. You have to be tenacious to overcome the constant objections.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.
This American right to bear arms with, practically, a Muslim fierceness, sometimes seems as if it must be age-old, an ancient tradition from a tenacious frontier holdover.
It's how tenacious you are that will determine your success.
I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as the bond between true friends.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
I am very tenacious.
An individual has to be tenacious enough to become enlightened.
You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
You're not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don't love what you're doing. If it's not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
Our shock that reality is other than expected is weirdly tenacious
We got a thumbs-down from every label. But you gotta keep the faith, man. You gotta hang in there and be tenacious.
Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.
Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities.
Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D - one of the great, great bands of our time.
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
I was always tenacious.
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.
You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.
Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.
The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.
Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
I'm incredibly tenacious, but I also try so hard in my work to really listen to people and address their point of view. In the end, I always remember who I'm an advocate for.
