Quotes About Grit

I run to see who has the most guts.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

It's not how hard you pushed along the way. It's having something in you to finish.

Think street, train sport.

Hustle makes up for many a mistake.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Sono qui perché se mi arrendo questa volta mi arrenderò tutta la vita.

Alexander McCall Smith

He felt weary. Life was a battle against wear; the wear of machinery and the wear of the soul. Oil. Grease. Wear.

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

The grit of the deathbed earth grows soft

she could squeeze the balls off a buffalo nickel.

Patton said: Pressure makes diamonds.

Americans never quit.

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. —Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Burn bread every day boy, no toaster.