Amy Hood Quotes

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

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

If I have anything, it's tenacity.

'Never give in' was my mindset.

That's why I kept wrestling - I'm too dumb to realize I can't win, so I keep wrestling until I ultimately succeed. I'm pretty dang stubborn.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

The human quality Degas most admired was endurance.

I am very tenacious.

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

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

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

I don't pull out of fights. I fight through injuries. I don't care what the circumstances are.

I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.

I don't give in and I don't believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.

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

I don't give up easily.

Tough, gritty, those are things that have been in me since I was a little kid.

I never gave up. I'm a fighter.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

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