Quotes About Grit

Usted puede darse cuenta si está en la senda del éxito, pues todo el camino es cuesta arriba". —Paul Harvey

Paul J. Meyer, founder of the Success Motivation Institute, says, "Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline," said Vince Lombardi. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.

If life gives you a million reasons to say I can't go on anymore, make life see a billion reasons to say I just can't get enough of you.

Life is tough but you are tougher...

I prefer a life of pain and hardship so that when I get a break or some kindness I appreciate it much more.

If it didnt work out the first time, it wont work out the second. Or the third. Or the fourth.

Courage is like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

I have failed, at times but I never stopped trying, which is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

I think the most beautiful people are the ones who went to the toughest situations in life but still manage to keep a smile on their face especially when they have a bright personality to go along with the smile.

Nothing Awesome Was ever Achieved Without Sweat, heart and Commitment.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

I have to play a bit of a physical game and try to work harder than everyone else.

Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again.

I've put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that's what I want to be left behind in my legacy.

One thing I can say - and anybody can say from any team I've ever played on - is that when I get out there I'm going to play as hard as I possibly can, whether it's on one leg or two legs or whatever.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.

I think that is where my success lies - for whatever I lack in talent, I make up for in hard work.