Quotes About Grit

I am not whimpering, at all," Temeraire muttered, and added, "ow!" There

Laurence reached up to wipe the grime from his face, and finding his hand come away red with gore felt back to where his scalp hung open and wet. Help me fold it up again, he said. A head wound is always a bloody nuisance; but unless my brains are out in the air, I suppose it will not kill me.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.

Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.

Success comes by inches, not by leaps or bounds. Success is the pushing forward each day by hard work.

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders:

as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

If a thing is worth doing it's worth doing badly.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Places like Wrexham and Southport, when there are not that many people there, were tough. You are a young lad, and you're having abuse hurled at you.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

Bradley Wright-Phillips

Top Boy' didn't try to glamorise anything. It gave it to you how it was. But it also dealt with mental health, social situations, immigration.

If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.

I feel like mental toughness has been a huge part.

I come from a hustler mentality.

My dad was raised hard. His own dad's mentality was, 'If you're not dead, you can work. If you're not dead, you're all right.'