Quotes About Grit

In the grueling light that passed for day...

Other than a light beading of sweat on his forehead there was little evidence that his labors had cost him anything at all.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? Getting up this morning, he said.

De acuerdo. Esto es lo que hacen los buenos. Seguir intentándolo. Jamás se rinden.

There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

Are you real brave? Just medium. What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

That hurt, didn't it? The boy said. - Yes. It did. - Are you real brave? - Just medium. - What's the bravest thing you ever did? - He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. - Really? - No. Don't listen to me. Come on, let's go.

They stood among their horses in the squalid little alameda while the wind ransacked the trees and the birds nesting in the gray twilight cried out and clutched the limbs and the snow swirled and blew across the little square and shrouded the shapes of the mud buildings beyond and made mute the cries of the vendors who'd followed them.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

Daybreak to backbreak for a godgiven dollar, said Billy. I love this life. You love this life, son? I love this life. You do love this life dont you? Cause by god I love it. Just love it.

Courage was not a given; it was acquired, earned.

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

He's quite a guy. Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out? He said: Queenie, I think I'm going to pass out and before I do, I'm going to give you a piece of advice-God, I thought he was going to die an dknew and was telling me what to do with his book-and he said quite solemnly: Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians-and passed out cold as a mackerel. And by God, it's not bad advice.

busting his agates

Repetition. Effort. Pain. Success. There really is no shortcut.

To hold a mighty heart.

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance.

My life has been real different than I thought. Ain't turned out how I hoped . . . nor dreamt. But I'm not the only man in the world to get screwed by life. Lots are worse off than me. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too." "You

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

Chas Newkey-Burden

Quitters never win. And Winners never quit.. Rip MM?º

How did I get here? I'm not rich. Not a mutant. Not a genius. Not a natural. I just try harder. I always have.