Tenacious Quotes
77 quotes by 76 authors
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The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious.…
— Laozi
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Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs…
— Thomas Piketty
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Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let…
— T.D. Jakes
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Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare…
— Blake Mycoskie
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
— Patricia Ireland
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I think everything can be painted because painting can change reality; but everything cannot be photographed and the photographer often comes home empty-handed, with images…
— Martine Franck
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Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the earth…
— John James Ingalls
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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied…
— Kit Williams
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Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we…
— James Freeman Clarke
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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion. . .…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any…
— Tony Robbins
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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…
— Bear Grylls
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Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is…
— David Oyelowo
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I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
— Garry Shandling
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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…
— Koichi Tanaka
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They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
— Samuel Johnson
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Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.
— Roger Penrose
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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as…
— Albert Memmi
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Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and…
— Robert L. Bartley
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