Quotes About Persistence

I knew my reporting would be validated eventually.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

Artists are supposed to stay hungry.

Baseball is my first love, and it's what I know, and it's what I'll do until I can't do it anymore, and I'm still hungry to do that.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I've had to fight every year. That's kept me hungry.

People say a striker should be so hungry for goals, that he should eat the grass. Well, I did that - literally!

There's many times people told me I couldn't do something or couldn't work for it - it just made me more hungry.

A hungry dog hunts best.

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I am a born hunter, like my father, my grandfather, and every man of my family before them.

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something.

I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.

Chad Mendes, I'm hunting with all the time.

Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

If I'm in the gym I'll stay for a while, and I'm not usually in a hurry to leave.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

I started out fighting before I was acting, actually, then got hurt and got into the acting.

I think the hustle is just in my blood - always hungry, never satisfied.

You've gotta keep the hustle on.