Top 30 Tenacious Quotes

A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it’s not the ‘popular’ choice.

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

I’m an incredibly hard worker, I’m incredibly tenacious, and I’m incredibly detail-oriented.

Having to re-articulate your values and, most importantly, your rights, is something that can be quite tiring and frustrating. However, I am meticulous and tenacious and will continue to do so, because I believe it’s what’s right. I believe it’s what I should be doing.

I’m pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don’t take ‘no’ very well.

In our society, people look at women who are tenacious, smart, attractive, and talented and for whatever reason say, ‘There must be something wrong with that equation. She couldn’t possibly be all of those things at once.’

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

When Jack Black and I started Tenacious D, there were about two seconds in the beginning when we thought maybe we’d have a go at serious music. But we quickly abandoned that when we realized that everything we did tended to come out funny.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Seriously, though, I realise I set the bar really high with Tenacious D – one of the great, great bands of our time.

Kellyanne is a tireless and tenacious advocate of the president-elect’s agenda and has amazing insights on how to effectively communicate the administration’s message as part of the senior team in the West Wing.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I’m growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things – being tenacious about it.

I just think that with my wrestling background there’s not going to be any doubt in my mind that if I have to go through a three round war that in the third round I’m gonna be more fresh, more tenacious, I’m gonna want that win more than anybody else I’m going to have to fight.

When you can’t see you become very timid about space and moving. You become less aggressive and less tenacious. Lots of things that shouldn’t be affected by vision really are. And you don’t even know what they are until they become unstuck.

Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.

I am very tenacious.

I’m not tough. I’m tenacious.

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.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

I was always tenacious.

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

I’ve taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I think my clients would tell you I’m a problem solver. I’m not there to agree with people. I’m there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.

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.

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

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.

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 his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.