Kathi Appelt Quotes

Count 10 over him - he'll get up

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

I've been written off. But I don't go about crying. Nothing is going to stop me. Not Chisora. We're marching on.

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

Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

Hillary Clinton doesn't quit. She doesn't give up. I respect that.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

I've never quit anything in my life.

Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving

She would not stop until she beat the devil.

The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going to keep fighting until the day I die - and might keep on fighting afterward ... depends on where I am.

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.