David Livingstone Quotes

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

Ain't nothing going to hold me back.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

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

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

We will never forget and we will not relent until our job is done.

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

I refused to take no for an answer.

A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.

I knew from the time I was a young girl that I was destined to be a writer. I'm incredibly stubborn. The more someone tells me I can't do something, the harder I work to prove them wrong. My father's nickname for me when I was growing up was 'Hardhead.'

If we cannot do this one way we will do it another. Do it, we will.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

You have to be persistent.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

So you know, the people that do know me, they know I can be very stubborn.