Quotes About Grit

Everything can't be sweet. Everything can't be peaches and cream.

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.

It's the little things. That's kind of what I bring to the table in terms of doing things that might not show up in the box score. Diving for a loose ball, or switching out on a guard and getting that big stop, cutting someone's water off if they've made a couple shots.

Quando Omni Flunkus Mortati

Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.

Keep going, no matter what." --Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---

La diferencia entre el sistema comunista y el capitalista es que, aunque los dos nos den una patada en el culo, en el comunista te la dan y tienes que aplaudir, y en el capitalista te la dan y uno puede gritar.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

survived." Her grandmother gave a sad little smile. "Most of us survive the hardest things. We are quite resilient.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Developing mental toughness isn't just about being resilient – it's about accessing your reserve tank when you think you just can't go any further.

Lo que importa no es necesariamente el tamaño del perro en la pelea, sino el tamaño de la pelea que lleva dentro el perro".

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.

She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.

Nico grit his teeth. "Demigod blood. The blood of Olympus.

She fingered the strand of pearls at her neck. Inside each pearl was a little piece of grit. That was the true self of the pearl wasn't it? The beauty of the pearl was just the poor oyster trying to protect itself. From the grit. From the truth.

The beauty of the pearl was just the poor oyster trying to protect itself from the grit. From the truth...

life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough

Still, hard work never killed anyone, right? By midday, I decide that whoever coined that phrase never toiled as a nineteenth-century housemaid.

floor, with

But I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?