Quotes About Grit

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.

Men who come out here should have no entrails.

constant dropping will wear away a stone

Challenge is tough. It needs efforts, energy and time.

Courage is energized by challenges; it is inspired by difficult tasks and even seeks them out. When courage is present, we rise to meet different challenges for the sake of what we want to accomplish, and we're not discouraged by thought of hardship or by the length of the undertaking.

Determination keeps us going when the going gets tough.

Determination and hard work are as important as talent.

Forget it . . . I'm never

Under the rough and ridiculous circumstances of life in the Rocky Mountains there was something exciting and vital, full of rude poetry: the heartbeat of the West as it fought its way upward toward civilization.

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

Never Die Easy

Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often," Chiun had said, and this had

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

The harder the life, the finer the person

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that?

Ne volim ljude koji se izvla?e iz svega kao kišne gliste. Bez ožiljka i bez ogrebotine. Komedijaši.

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.