Quotes About Grit

My clawed fingers lost all feeling after the first quarter-mile as I clung to anything within reach, and my right foot was numb from stomping an imaginary brake pedal.

Success doesn't depend on your past or your present. Success begins when you are willing to do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Let me tell you something about sad days. They're just part of life, but the best thing you can do on the happy days or on the sad ones is to do what you do best with everything you've got.

I don't expect life to be easy. It hasn't been yet and I'm not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don't have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.

By strengthening our compassion, we give fuel to our courage and determination.

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

Have you no pity?' Glokta could only shrug. 'I did have. As a boy I was soft-hearted beyond the point of foolishness. I swear, I would cry at a fly caught in a spider's web.' He grimaced at a brutal spasm through his leg as he turned for the door. 'Constant pain has cured me of that.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

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If you try to quit I will eat you!

Soul is the place, stretched like a surface of millstone grit between body and mind, where such necessity grinds itself out.

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What is true for grit is true for optimism. Optimism gets you to stick to things that are worthwhile. But optimism also gets you to stick to things that are no longer worthwhile. And life's too short to do that.

Quit and grit are two sides of the exact same decision. Decision-making in the real world requires action without complete information. Quitting is the tool that allows us to react to new information that is revealed after we make a decision.

The English language itself favors grit, describing those who persevere with positive terms like can-do, unwavering, steadfast, resolute, daring, audacious, undaunting, gutsy, and hardy. Or as having backbone, pluck, mettle, tenacity, or stick-to-itiveness.

As you already know, grit is good for getting you to stick to hard things that are worthwhile, but grit also gets you to stick to hard things that are no longer worthwhile.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

To captain your team to promotion in one of the most gruelling leagues in the world is right up there, it goes very high on my list. It's something I'm immensely proud of - I don't think it quite sinks in.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

Obviously, we've proved a lot of skeptics, who thought we'd be gone after a record or two, wrong.

My legs are trembling, but I won't fall

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

Sweetness is hard. Real sweetness is a sort of hardness—and strength. ~Lois