Quotes About Grit

Put in the work. Reap the rewards

Keep hustling, something good will happen.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Bad days, good days, 'I'll cut you if you look at me the wrong way' days. I'll take them all.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

The difference between success and failure is work.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Fight for what you want because forever is a long time to be a quitter.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out.

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

Persistence is the answer, and a sense of humor helps.