Quotes About Grit

Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.

People of India who work day and night, they are my inspiration. I look at them and I work even harder.

You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether we're going to whine or do the work.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work.

You come out hurting all over, and what didn't hurt, didn't work.

I grew up in the streets, but that doesn't mean I'm a bum.

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

I don't walk the mean streets.

My football comes from the streets.

It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.

I don't think my determination has ever put me into trouble because of this, in fact, I think it is one of my main strengths and makes me the player that I am - without it I wouldn't be the same.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

Typically, when someone gets a choke on me, I have a pretty strong neck. It's usually hard to choke me.

One of the hardest parts of this game, and what I don't think people understand, is the mental side of it. They think, 'Oh, he's a big, stronger guy.' But let me tell you, and I believe this without question: It's not always the biggest, strongest, meanest, toughest-looking who gets the job done.