Quotes About Grit

You think it's normal to get what you want all the time," said Jule. "For things to be easy. But it isn't. Most people don't get what they want, like, ever. They have doors shut in their faces. They have to strive, all the time. They don't live in your magical land of two-seater cars and perfect teeth and traveling to Italy and fur coats.

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right.

Don't take no for an answer.

Be tenacious.

I know the private was a grunt just by his attitude. You've got to love those guys; they're the real people of life. And they're hit on, shit on, tramped on, and fucked with forever.

Like all good cowboys dead and alive on fighting and grit and blood they thrive with a little strong whisky to keep hope alive.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

Prosperity depends on ferocity.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I've never pulled out of a fight, never not showed up to fight, so injured or not, I'm coming.

I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.

I can take a punch.

When someone is punched in the face, you find out what they are made of.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

It's not fun to get punched in the face. It's hard, and there's no glory in it.

I guess God blessed me with a hard head, because I really didn't feel punches.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.