Quotes About Grit

It's not meant to be comfortable," Cly told him. He pushed at the captain's chair, which had been furnished with a leather pad in the shape of a cushion. It looked approximately as soft as an old book. Fang

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

Writing is hard....Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. And, dear one, you and I both were granted a mighty generous hand.

There is no why. You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding.

If your Nerve, deny you – Go above your Nerve – EMILY DICKINSON

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding. And, dear one, you and I both were granted a mighty generous hand.

Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

There wasn't a day on the trail when that monotony didn't ultimately win out, when the only thing to think about was whatever was the physically hardest. It was a sort of scorching cure. I counted my steps, working my way to a hundred and starting over again at one. Each time I completed another set it seemed as if I'd achieved a small thing. Then a hundred became too optimistic and I went to fifty, then twenty-five, then ten.

My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked.

You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation—I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too.

WRITE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER

Never give in,

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle

Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

Perseverance is everything.

Effort is like toothpaste: you can usually squeeze out just a little bit more.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: "[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There were a lot of disappointments especially during the Depression—fuck it—in everyone's life there are disappointments and lost hope…. No one escapes. That's why you got to be grateful every day that you get to the next.

every obstacle should at first be put in the way of the aspiring artist, as it is only those you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.