Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

I've always been stubborn.

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

I'm going to fight until my body says otherwise.

I'm stubborn; once I start something, I want to see how far I can go.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

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

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired.