Quotes About Grit

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

I never had a budget, I never had a manager, I never had a PR. I never had nothing. I was getting everything straight out the mud.

Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.

My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.

Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.

I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.

My motto has always been hard work.

Bullock by name, and Bullock by nature.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

Everything you see on screen is real. By doing what we do, there's naturally going to be a lot of grimacing. And whimpering.

The right stuff' on this level, he says, is some combination of these four qualities: talent, durability, determination, and courage.

Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.

We can choose to put up with all sorts of unpleasant shit because we know our tomorrow selves will thank us for it.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." —Theodore Roosevelt

Val McDermid

I'm always amazed how overnight successes take a helluva long time.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

You hang on," her mother said. "Until your hands are bleeding, and still you do not let go.

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

Motherhood at times like this—most times—was about the steel in your spine, not the bend.

She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed.

Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in. No matter how afraid she was, she had to teach her children every day how to survive.

She knew how dangerous escape could be. Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in.

Somehow I keep going. If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.