Quotes About Grit

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Accept that some days you're the bug, and some days you're going to be the windshield.

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

I am doing the best I can given what I have today.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

T" is for Tenacity.