Quotes About Grit

I'd rather say that had the going not been tough, perhaps it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.

For the fans out in public, I don't make enough money to not fight.

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

I worked hard at Everton.

My thing was I had attitude every night. No matter who I played, who I went against, what team, you've got to have an attitude.

I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.

I just try to bring it every night in whatever way I can.

You have to be a real live dog to come out there and compete every night.

Barcelona, negó entonces con la cabeza Dalmau, era una ciudad tremendamente cruel con quienes la engrandecían entregando su vida y su salud, su familia y sus hijos.

Iris Johansen

I bet you never had to live through really tough times." "Yes, I did," he says. Well, I'm not going to ask what he considers tough times. There are those who already feel sorry for themselves when they haven't had a hot meal by three in the afternoon.

ODESSA IS A NASTY PLACE. Everybody knows that.

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

This is where the calluses on a man's hand are bigger than his conscience, and dreams get drowned in sweat and tears.

I am a rat, and I am gnawing. I am a rat.

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

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

Inspiration is for amateurs.

The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets' ratings on a noncognitive, nonphysical trait known as "grit

As they explained, "Whereas the importance of working harder is easily apprehended, the importance of working longer without switching objectives may be less perceptible . . . in every field, grit may be as essential as talent to high accomplishment."14

Mastery is a mindset: It requires the capacity to see your abilities not as finite, but as infinitely improvable. Mastery is a pain: It demands effort, grit, and deliberate practice. And mastery is asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring.

The best predictor of success, the researchers found, was the prospective cadets' ratings on a noncognitive, non-physical trait known as "grit"—defined as "perseverance and passion for long-term goals."10 The experience of these army officers-in-training confirms the second law of mastery: Mastery is a pain.

When kids are given whatever they want all the time, they lose opportunities to build resilience and learn important life lessons: