Quotes About Grit

Individuals with a higher degree of confidence work harder, persist longer, are more optimistic and enthusiastic, show more grit and determination, and choose more difficult and higher goals than those with less confidence.

Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

For years and years, I was doing extra work and guest spots and anything I could cobble together.

There is a chip on my shoulder, both shoulders, yes sir.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.

I'm a New Yorker, and I'm a fighter.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

I'm known for my strength and it helped that from a young age I was carrying around crates of beer or carpets and heavy rolls of underlay.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

Success is carved out of a hard tree. It doesn't just happen. It's people who stick to it that succeed.

Sometimes I have to shake my head at how much work it can take to track down a handful of food. Perfect example: I spent a whole day in the Amazon rainforest, in Ecuador, scouring the trunks of dead palm trees for grubs.

I think there's guys who are coming out of college that might not be scorers but have the ability to go down in the trenches and do the dirty work. I think I give those guys a little more inspiration to go out there and work hard.

There are a lot of athletic trends that I don't have. I feel like I have a bigger heart and desire than most people do.

It's disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There's no bravado to any of it; it's just a disgusting little trick.

Greatness is not a term of success, but of endurance.

From this point forward, you don't even know how to quit in life."~ Aaron Lauritsen, '100 Days Drive