Quotes About Grit

Succeeding in life is a difficult business - you need to work 16 hours a day, face failures along the way, remember that nobody owes you a thing, and take risks.

Every step, every bit of success, it's gotta be earned.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.

Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

Success is not usually easy or fast.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

The secret to my success is persistence.

Never been a successful audition, not even so much as a callback, when it comes to putting me in a role of being rough.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

Talk about the area of overcoming adversity, sucking it up, I rate myself a 10.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

You've got to want to play defence. Nobody really wants to play defence. It's boring. It sucks. You don't get the flashiness, the scores, the dunks. But you've got to have it.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's hoss, I don't care where he comes from. And he can keep at it as long as the sun can shine without resting.

It's never sunny in Buffalo.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

Between hammers pounding, the heart exists, like the tongue between the teeth—which still, however, does the praising.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.