Quotes About Grit

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins,but by how they can recover when they fall.

even when she wasn't

going, but that was OK. Good, honest hard work: burying the dead. Took an hour to dig a hole

Never quit, we are always 3 feet from Gold.

Resistance builds strength

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer.

If I must bear it, though, I would bear it— find the whole meaning of it, taste the whole of it.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now.

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I'm successful

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I am going to learn it if I must die in the attempt.

When something that needs to be done is impossible to do," Estelle said, "I have always found that the only possible course of action is to do it anyway.

He ain't big and he ain't strong, but that boy's got a by-God streak of fight in him. And he was going to need it.

She's got the face of an angel and the soul of a pit bull–piranha hybrid.

Give up on me giving up.

Six-time Ironman winner Mark Allen hit the nail on the head when he described endurance racing as "a test of you as a person on top of a test of you as an athlete." But

He decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

What does all this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence.

Show me someone who's okay with losing," he said, "and I'll show you a loser.

Whatever you don't won't be enough. Try anyway.