Quotes About Grit

No matter how much it hurts. You have to keep going.

The reason most people fail in life is because they give up before they have tried. They forget that you miss all the shots you don't take. Try and fail but never fail to try.

My hands were cut almost to blood by jagged shards of rock. My feet left stains where they stepped. The pain was welcome, ordinary and clean. So easy to bear it was laughable.

It is mostly will. Will and work.

But endurance had always been my virtue, and I kept on.

Madison Cawthorn

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers—read the script.

working the salt-roughened lines. They had

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

An hour was allowed at noon for dinner and more chores. We stayed in the field until dark, then supper, and still more chores, family worship, and to bed; making all together a hard, sweaty day of about 16 or 17 hours. Think of that, ye blessed 8-hour-day laborers!

The greatest minds are marked by nothing more distinctly than an inconceivable humility, and acceptance of work or instruction in any form and from any quarter. They will learn from everybody, and do anything that anybody asks of them so long as it involves only toil, or what other men might think degradation.

He's awful hard," she said. "I'm awful hard, too," LaChaise said.

Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch, he said. Well, I can stop that. He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.

Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do. Well, thanks. We'll drag on." And he got in the truck and moved away.

Tom grinned. "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

I've always believed that hustle can make up for a lot of mistakes.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept pain - not only accept it, but look for it, live with it, learn not to fear it.

Bravery is feeling fear but doing the thing anyway.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

Life is not easy and it will only become harder if all you do is complain.