Dogged Out Quotes

#1. He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

James Toney

#2. I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.

Patti LaBelle

#3. I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Spike Lee

#4. He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques.

Toby Barlow

#5. All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Robert Redford

#6. What of the melancholy, may I ask?"
"Stubbornly persistent, I'm sorry to say."
"If only modest joy were so dogged, eh?"
"You said something there, sir.

Patrick DeWitt

#7. For unfortunately the person most dogged in the belief in a false reputation is always that one, the possessor, who has the best means of knowing that it is not true.

Thomas Hardy

#8. It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.

Anthony Trollope

#9. Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

Dalai Lama

#10. I don't know if I discovered I had any talent. It was dogged persistence. I had to have the music.

Bob Weir

#11. I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

John Howard

#12. Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Erica Jong

#13. All her life, she was used to being pampered, to having everything she desired, but the things that she valued were never those that could be bought but those small tokens of truth and dogged fidelity which she, herself, could not give to anyone.

F. Sionil Jose

#14. I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.

Glen Duncan

#15. There is a patience of the wild
dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself
that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food;

Jack London

#16. What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

Edward Sapir

#17. I have always been of the opinion that your successes are due not so much to your medical skill as your dogged determination. No one would have the audacity to die when you are doctoring them.

Elizabeth Peters

#18. Instead, I would take a long, lonely journey toward adulthood with the dogged faith of the pioneer who has realized that there is no promised land but still holds out hope that the destination will be someplace better than here. On

Hope Jahren

#19. Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Orison Swett Marden

#20. The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.

Jack Schwartz

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

Jennifer Egan

#22. I always knew that the only thing I wanted to do was act, but it took me a long time to say it out loud to anyone, let alone myself. I am surprised by how dogged I have been in wanting to make a living as a respected actress.

Jessica Raine

#23. The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Kevin Toolis

#24. They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.

Vivien Shotwell

#25. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Christopher Morley

#26. There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

James Dyson

#27. In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

David Graeber

#28. I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

Allegra Huston

#29. I'm very dogged when I believe in something. I'm also dark and twisty.

Betsy Beers

#30. This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing ...

George McGovern

#31. The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

Don Mattingly

#32. Not only a fanatic and an incendiary (two of the insults that dogged Defoe most closely in his lifetime), the author of Robinson Crusoe was also an egregious spiv, and a slave to bling.

Daniel Defoe

#33. Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never replace sheer dogged determination.

Barbara Michaels

#34. Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

E. M. Forster

#35. I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Albert Einstein

#36. It's dogged as does it.

Anthony Trollope

#37. Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses.

Chris Hadfield

#38. On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

Bobby Jones

#39. Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry
I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Langston Hughes

#40. Life rewards the dogged, not the qualified.

Bear Grylls

#41. It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

Derek Thompson

#42. The Bible definitely does not teach that those who follow God will have a life of bliss. It describes the dogged faith of those who continue to trust in God despite their suffering, and the comfort, strength, and hope they find in the face of suffering.

Adam Hamilton

#43. There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity - even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.

Thomas Hardy

#44. A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

W.E.B. Du Bois