Quotes About Grit

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

My trews may be soft, lass, he thoughts, but what's in them isn't.

Buck up, little buckaroo, it said, in a dry, gravelly drawl. You wouldn't believe how many things that advice has gotten me through since. When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: Are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

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Karen Marie Moning

Nothing had been easy for me in Dublin. I no longer expected it to be, nor would I waste time complaining when it could be put to better use moving forward.

At some point you are going to want to give up. Consider this a reminder: Don't you dare.

Refuse to live a settle for it life.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

it wasn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, but the grain of sand in your shoe

Well, you get out of bed, you eat your grits, say hey to your neighbor, you give extra love to her children, and you live your life. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you. But life does go on.

and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded to admit defeat.

Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It's through the hardships you endure that you'll gain real strength.

Sometimes you just have to play in pain

Mentally tough athletes know how to stay focused and deal with adversity.

The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. —VINCE LOMBARDI

silica (also known as sand).

And sand, it seemed, got into everything, stinging eyes, abrading skin, and getting into nearly every crack and crevice.

Brian Kilmeade

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.