Quotes About Grit

Lo que hay que tener (Anagrama, 2010), de Tom Wolfe

The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, "sisu"—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you've reached the limits of your abilities. I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

No olvidamos cuántas veces nos han rechazado.

Work will work when nothing else will work.

Would it work? I had no idea, but I did know one thing: If the easy approach failed, the unending-labor-in-the-salt-mines approach was always waiting in the wings.

There is very little luck involved. Winning your great job is about hard work, stamina, grit, ingenuity, and timing.

The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, "sisu"—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you've reached the limits of your abilities. I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is.

he explains the secret of his success this way: "There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan.

It is so easy to coast!

Dr. Timothy Shutt, in the context of the Illiad, explains the larger meaning of armor in Greek culture. It is the visible reputation of the warrior -- his gravitas, his wake. This allows another warrior to go out and win victories in the armor of Achilles.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

If you had ever leaned sideways into the breeze with a sand wedge in your hands, staring through windblown tears at a golf ball entombed in four feet of fanged thistle, clothes soaked through to the skin, fingers like an overworked fishmonger, and yet you couldn't bring yourself to stop smiling—then you got it.

In life, it's not what you hope for, its not what you deserve, it's what you take.

I always enjoy fight scenes and being grubby and bloody and not having to look good. I prefer that very much, as odd as that sounds.

To battle the odds - loss of interest, no funding, discouragement - requires someone who doesn't give up.

Football has an off-season. Basketball has an off-season. TV has an off-season. Everything has an off-season except wrestling.

I always want to try for what's been offered to me.

At a certain point, we need to figure out how to reward those who choose a path that offers, often, almost no reward.

At first, whenever I first got into the UFC, I was like, 'oh my God, I'm in the UFC.' When you come from where I came from, being in the UFC basically meant I was on top of the world.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.