Quotes About Grit

Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.

Every bone in her body felt as if it were broken, her muscles and skin bruised, agony throbbing through her joints. Gritting

I don't mind losing. Losing is like breathing to me.

Lisa Scottoline

worked. But she could live with it. "So

More clench than butt cheeks.

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.

Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time.

We don't always get what we want out of life. It's how we handle what's left that matters. – Matt Jacobs (hero)

Buck up, suck it up, don't fuck it up

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

is a fair land, Darby, but a raw, rough land that will use up men until it breeds the kind it needs. Well, I will be used, and I hope to have a hand in the breeding, too.

Stanley raised and lowered one shoulder.

Still, Tidewater pushed relentlessly ahead.

Since I came to the White House, I've gotten two hearing aids, had a colon operation, a prostate operation, skin cancer, and I've been shot...damn thing is, I've never felt better.

Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And hold on when there's nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.