Maryam Mirzakhani Quotes

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

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

I am not the sort of person who gives up.

I am very tenacious.

What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.

I was always tenacious.

The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I've always been tenacious.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

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

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Never give in and never give up.

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.

You have to be persistent.

That's how I would describe myself, persistent.

We must be relentless and resilient.

I'm very dogged and patient.

I will never give up, and I will never give in.

Quitting is not part of my DNA.

I am not someone that is going to give up. I just don't do that.