Quotes About Grit

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

You gotta have a thick skin to be a fighter.

Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

You look at anything I've been a part of, it's when the laboring, the fatigue, when some of those things happen, that's what shows what you're going to be.

I try not to get too low. I fight adversity as hard as I can fight it, not to get too low. When good things happen, I don't really embrace it. I just say it's a lucky day.

Everything is pretty good in my life, and like everybody else, things happen, and you put your head down and solve challenges.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

That's the easiest thing to do, is quit and give up when things are hard. You really see what you're made of when those things are not going the way you want them to go.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, How unlucky that this should happen to me! Not at all! Say instead, How lucky that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.

Remind yourself of what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure.

Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last

Fuck that shit, I told them, I've started this and I'm going to finish it.

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She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. The

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.