Quotes About Grit

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

His bare foot was calloused enough for gravel and glass. But ash kept working between his foot and his remaining sandal to grind like finest sand, work its way under, and silt itself with his sweat. His heel was almost sore.

Do not take no for an answer

Entrepreneurs give up sense of entitlement for school/university or how much money you were able to raise so far. Nothing succeeds like success.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

She wore her determination like war paint.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Determination. You have to be willing to put in the extra time and the extra practice to be the best.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

La única forma de ganar es seguir jugando.

I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.' 'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.

But it hurt...and sometimes that's enough

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Nietzsche: «Aquel que tiene un porqué lo bastante fuerte, puede soportar casi cualquier cómo».