327 Quotes About Tenacity

concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray; your purpose can put people in disarray.

I always say that my success has been three parts support and encouragement from my amazing network and one part piss and vinegar.

The giant tree you see today was once a small seed that held its ground.

Nearly completed in each instance, the wind blew the robin’s nest out of the aspen tree four times in a row. And I greatly admired the fact that in the face of such frustrating misfortune the robin’s rebuilt their nest those four times, when we as humans probably wouldn’t have done it but once or twice. Or maybe less.

A large part of the battle is not wanting to fight it, for if that were not the case we might be fighting something but it would not be a battle.

I chose to put my vulnerability above my social image. I was going to either fail or succeed. But I sure as hell wasn't going to be complacent.

Any accomplishment rests far more in determination than ability, for determination is the greatest ability of all.

The shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line. But because going from point A to point A is even shorter, it’s never not rush hour.

It is not a matter of being broken, even though I am in fact quite shattered. It is understanding that my capacity to be fixed always exceeds the extent to which I’m broken.