Quotes About Grit

My father John taught me about hard work and the importance of manners.

In the marathon anything can happen.

Gallant lass - ten miles without a whimper.

Adeline was made like a piece of wire with knots for knees and elbows.

When the going gets tough the tough get going

What people look for in a dying friend is a stubborn kind of gravel-voiced nobility, a refusal to give in, with moments of indomitable humor.

God is guts" — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad "The Little Red God

classmate of mine once complained to a professor about a book he was required to read. He claimed it was as dry as dust. "Well," said the professor, "why don't you dampen it with a little sweat from your

I bent over to give my hair another shake, and glanced at my boots, along with the several dozen roaches climbing up them. Then I felt them inside the boots, between the suede and the naked skin of my calves. I

Barry Eisler.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Always remember, when opportunity knocks, don't knock opportunity! Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Never look at the odds, buddy.

It wasn't good, but it could have been worse; it can always be worse.

I was shown, not told, the workingman's belief in hard labor,

A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't

chair wouldn't rock. So I heaved myself from side to side. It still didn't move. I gripped the arms and jerked myself around and hung way out over the arms like some rodeo rider on a wild bull.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation

When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.

Mr. Strike Out!

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

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this. From what people have told me about her, she'd have given you hell!' 'Yes, she would.' He managed