Quotes About Grit

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

Quitting is the only thing that really brings permanent failure.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

Your brain can only absorb what your ass can endure.

Illegitimis nil carborundum.

You'll figure it out," he assured her earnestly. She turned to him, eyes alight with ire—and then frowned. "Quit baiting me." He grinned. Unable to help himself. What a gift she was.

Survival is not a pretty business.

Oh, it was real, all right," she says. "We lived it; we were there. If you go through something and put up with it even if you want to get away from it more than anything in the whole world, then it was definitely bloody real.

He survives, does our Todd.

As I lay there, counting my blessings and broken ribs, Elodin stepped into my field of vision. He looked down at me. "Congratulations," he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mixture of awe and disbelief. "Ever.

Por qué no lo haces y punto, en lugar de hacer todo lo posible por intentarlo?

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would have stood a chance of doing it.

I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

put his back into it, he managed to slide it slowly

It felt wrong giving up without trying everything possible.

el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo.

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would've stood a chance of doing it.

I wiped the shit from my shoes again and again, still going about my business, that of being alive, the best I could.

Roy Baumeister and his colleagues. They posit that mental effort (or self-control, willpower, or grit) actually is a lot like a muscle. Like a muscle, it can work for only so long before it gets tired; like a muscle, it can be strengthened through exercise.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

the pile again. A half hour later, I got

I believe anybody with guts and brains who's willing to work hard can make it.