Quotes About Grit

Last year, when 'Black Swan ' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn

Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

Anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning

tried-and-true methods. Once, he had sifted through a hundred bags of garbage

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

I had figured out, long ago, that it paid to do what the competition found difficult, distasteful or even just a waste of time.

One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' - is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more.

Get a PHD No, not a doctoral degree. I mean a PHD attitude: Poor, Hungry and Driven.

no estoy hecha a pasar sinsabores.

Hope, on the other hand, is a stubborn determination to do all you can to make it work.

Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

Nothing came to me overnight unlike many others in the industry.

Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.

Grit is that 'extra something' that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Nothing is over until you quit.