Quotes About Hustle

“The heart of the engine is the one part that I can't help you find, unfortunately. There is just no way for me to document its location; it's different in every car. I could barely find the heart of my VW-it was too confusing, and there were too many routes. Every time I thought I'd reach the center point I realized I was lost, not where I thought I was, following the wrong sunrise yet again. I wonder: Does the heart move around or something? The geographic arrangement of the engine compartment doesn't make things any easier- some of the mechanical parts are underground, nestled in the hills, and others are hidden behind the hustle and lathe of small mechanical cities. But don't cloudy-day! We'll find the heart eventually- I don't care if we need to tear the engine down to every bolt and moment to do so.”

— Christopher Boucher

“Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.”

— Paul Goodman

“Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.”

— K'wan

“Hustle isn't just doing the things you love all the time. Hustle is doing the things you don't enjoy sometimes to earn the right to do the things you love.”

— Jon Acuff

“Burn your dream bright. Pursue it with the best of who you are. But don't confuse hustle with burnout. Hustle fills you up. Burnout empties you. Hustle renews your energy. Burnout drains it.”

— Jon Acuff

“The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.”

— Nic Sheff

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.”

— Seth Godin

“New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.”

— Kat Edmonson

“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.”

— Criss Jami

“I love people, and the hustle.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“This industry is all about work, and just because Sundance exposed me to the world, it is my job to stay deserving in that world. The work never ends; the hustle just get harder, and you get stronger!”

— Gina Rodriguez

“Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.”

— Leah Busque

“Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.”

— Mos Def

“Good things happen to those who hustle.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted ... but I had that hunger for more. I didn't always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes.”

— Curtis Jackson

“Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!”

— Mark Zupan

“Don't hustle old people.”

— John Burns

“On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on
each of two major roads. "Welcome to winter," one said. "When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.”

— Kelley Armstrong

“I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Music is my hustle.”

— Pitbull

“I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.”

— Young Jeezy

“I was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.”

— Bindi Irwin

“But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.”

— Kanye West

“When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success.”

— Lil' Wayne

“I hike a lot. The view and the air up in the hills are much greater than the hustle and bustle of the city. It makes it all look so silly and small.”

— Inbar Lavi

“Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.”

— Dan Pearce

“Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.”

— Rick Pitino

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?”

— Sarah

“My hustle is just too crazy. I'm trying to take over the world!”

— Spencer Pratt

“(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.”

— Nellie Fox

“Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.”

— Tex Winter

“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”

— Tyrese Gibson

“We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.”

— Pancho Barnes

“You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.”

— Pete Rose

“My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.”

— Kevin Gates

“I've seen people who don't have deals get features from people that labels can't even get features from, because you gotta show face and be in-tune with these guys who still have that independent mind set as far how you hustle yourself. Because they only really care at the end of the day about the dollas.”

— Kid Ink

“Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Get your hustle on ... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.”

— Russell Simmons

“And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.”

— Matthew Arnold

“I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you, I'm wit it.”

— Drake

“I like the way you hustle man.”

— Joe Teti

“When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.”

— Behdad Sami

“I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.”

— Billy Joel

“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“Hustle makes up for many a mistake.”

— John Wooden

“With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It doesn't take talent to hustle.”

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.