Quotes About Grit

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

It doesn't matter how many private jets you take, how much money you make, how famous you get, keep putting in the hours.

I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

The best lesson that I've learned from my mother is that she just never accepted no for an answer and I think that's something that has stayed with me.

This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

Life - with or without softener- is hard

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Don't stop when you're tired; stop when you're done.

Grind Hard, Shine Hard.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Run hard, be strong, think big!