Quotes About Grit

You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Not only should we expect lots and lots of failure, but we should also be grateful when it shows up because it means we are on the right track. Failure is a mile marker on the pathway to finishing first.

this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.

It ain't no broken.

So they duly arrived in their grim war-graith and gear at the hall, and, weary from the sea, stacked wide shields of the toughest hardwood against the wall

Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

It doesn't matter the size of the dog in the fight, rather the size of the fight in the dog.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

Nikdy jsem nedopustil, aby Å¡kola stála v mé cestÄ› za vzdÄ›láním.

pertinacity

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.

She did not produce it easily, but when it came, she had a starving smile.

You will be caked in your own body.