Quotes About Grit

And it also told me I was going to need to go old school to break this fucker.

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fall.

I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can.

Anything good in his life he had fought and scratched for, and his joy came from a deep place of understanding the lack of it.

Hold on to it, no matter what you have to do. Never give it up. Not this time.

Théodore Vacquer,

Press on, regardless.

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter! Try again. Fail again. Fail better! Understand? Good. Play.

Give up trying to make me give up

Even the sweetest girl needs a hard center, or she's not gonna make it out there!!" - Sakura

Because you never know exactly what you'll find inside that black box until you open it, there is a temptation to hope—perhaps not quite consciously—that your next race won't be one of those grinding affairs. This hope is a poor coping skill. Bracing yourself—always expecting your next race to be your hardest yet—is a much more mature and effective way to prepare mentally for competition.

Life is hard. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard.

But I am good with pain. Small price to pay for being alive.

People with stamina aren't made any differently to anyone else… The only difference is they have a clear goal in mind, and a determination to get there. Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit

People with stamina aren't made any differently to anyone else,' she was saying. 'The only difference is they have a clear goal in mind, and a determination to get there. Stamina is essential to stay focused in a life filled with distraction. It is the ability to stick to a task when your body and mind are at their limit

Never give up, Never say die.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

She wasn't just a B-girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes.

The memories come in pieces. Little bits of grit too small to pick up even with a wetted finer, too small even to hold in my gaze.

Because she was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. She was all open mouth, tunneling into an awful nothing. I hated her. And I felt closer to her than ever. Goddamn her.

There are many opportunities in a life. It's not a failing to take whatever comes one's way. In fact, I rather think it a strength.