Quotes About Grit

He's capital.

Get through he must, and would, no matter

An old woman I know who has lived all her life on ranches here and rarely complains about deprivations (she raised a family with no electricity or running water, and can remember winnowing wheat by hand with blankets in the 1920s because her family could not afford to hire a threshing machine and crew) once said to me, "The one thing I could never stand was the wind.

Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. - Jim Rohn

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

been give a second chance, Nurse, an' I'm grabbing it wi' both hands.' And presently, when the tea was finished and the biscuits crunched down, Rose snuggled under the covers, careful to keep her injured arm away from her body, and was soon fast asleep –

He remembered those tense moments on the cliff face and kept a grin off his own face with an effort. How many women, he wondered, could have spit curses at a man while dangling from a cliff by her fingertips? With someone shooting at her? Not many.

I figure I made out pretty good considering the rest of my family is either dead or crazy.

Todos fracasamos alguna vez. No se trata de elegir entre el fracaso y el éxito; sino de escoger el riesgo y aspirar a la grandeza, o no tomar ningún riesgo y asegurarnos la mediocridad.

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

There's no room at the chuck wagon for a quitter's blankets.

there's an old slang term in baseball: a dirt dog. Dirt dogs are scrappy. Dirt dogs have been around the block. they are hard working, and a bit rough around the edges. they never give up.

he would skin a flea for the fat on its arse.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Una mano fuerte y callosa, como si

El que reciste, gana.

He who gives back at first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs success, has never been, is not, and never will be, a hero in love, war or business. - Frederick Tudor

Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

But I'm still standing. I'm still breathing. And somehow, I'm okay.

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk—or why.

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. I don't know when exactly I started giving myself this daily pep talk—or why... But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Every morning I wake up and I tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. ...I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.