Quotes About Grit

Lynn M. Hamilton

Perseverance means having an urgency, firmness, resolve, and consistency.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

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Success consists of a series of little daily victories.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

Toughness is a skill. I don't think we're all born tough. You learn about toughness through your experience.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

When you hit failure your workout has just begun.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure.

Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Failure comes when we don't get back up and try again.

Failure isn't final until you quit!!

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.