Quotes About Grit

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest." The old man winced as he squatted down beside Jezal. "Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.

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Hate us if you like. We're used to it. No one likes to shake hands with the man who empties the latrine pit either, but pits have to be emptied all the same. Otherwise, the world fills up with shit.

And then he realised then that he had not lost all those times in the training square because he had lacked the skill, or the strength, or even a hand. He had lacked the will.

Self-pity was for children and half-wits.

Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

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Better off digging than getting buried.

Well, we're tough," Leonard said. "Ain't nobody tough enough in the end," Reba said.

Breathing the air was like swallowing broken glass.

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

You can always quit, so why quit now.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Acting is a life of rejection.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again.

The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.