Quotes About Grit

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.

For me, I guess I feel like the notion of 'feel good' entertainment... I'm all for it, but I just think you really, really, really have to earn it. I'm not sure I have a lot of movies in me where I see a world that earns it.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Little obstacles, if they don't go my way, I really don't even get down. I've been through so much.

You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

It's always too early to quit

It's always too soon to quit!

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.

As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the arm. They're shouting for you, she said with a smile. But I could never have done it, he objected, without everyone else's help. That may be true, said Reason gravely, but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

But I could never have done it,' he objected, 'without everyone else's help.' 'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.

Often it is not the wrong start but the wrong stop that makes the difference between success and failure.

Men don't fail; they give up trying.

The Scroll Marked III I will persist until I succeed.

The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.

Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.

I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond .

I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you? If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.

Bean just didn't get it. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

but you can't preserve at all.