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Quotes About Grit

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
~ Christopher Morley
Glory comes from keeping on trying when you're losing, not from giving up!
~ Unknown
Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.
~ Chubby Checker
Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up to standing. This takes time. Stories need to find the right home, the right audience. Stick with it. Quitting is for sad pandas.
~ Chuck Wendig
Don't quit when it gets too tough,always remember there's SEVERE in the word 'perSEVERE
~ Unknown
I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.
~ Clarice Lispector
Patience isn't a gift. It is learned.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
~ Coco Chanel
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
~ Heywood Hale Broun
Pain makes you strong, Madoc once told me, making me lift a sword again and again. Get used to the weight.
~ Holly Black
Waves tossed themselves against the shore, dragging grit and sand between their nails as they were slowly pulled back out to sea.
~ Holly Black
Pain makes you strong... Get used to the weight.
~ Holly Black
Musisz mie? do?? si?y, by zadawa? cios za ciosem, cios za ciosem, nie poddaj?c si? znu?eniu. To pierwsza rzecz, jakiej musisz si? nauczy? - jak wykrzesa? z siebie te si??.
~ Holly Black
This ancient Pinto was held together with sheer willpower and a whole lot of prayer. But she wasn't going to let her old jalopy ruin her perfect mood either.
~ Unknown
Im a made nigga, I should dust somethin. You niggas on the bench, like the bus comin.
~ Lil Wayne
I aint never had height, but boy I got heart.
~ Lil Wayne
What you can't run away from, you have to face
~ Lilith Saintcrow
Focus on your target and fight the impulse to concede too quickly.
~ Unknown
Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.
~ Linda Kaplan Thaler
Hard work is good for the soul," she would say. "And it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself, because you don't have time.
~ Linda Kaplan Thaler
Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have; it was a decision, a choice.
~ Linda Lael Miller
You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.
~ Unknown
The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.
~ Lionel Shriver