Quotes About Grit

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees!

Brain of a deer tick, but that's not something to hold against a running back.

already with needles inside. "Tig just

Shit," he grunted. A minute or so passed. Then he sat up and looked at me. He flexed his leg and flashed his indefatigable grin.

Grits ain't groceries and revenge don't pay the bills.

stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Cultivate whatever serves your persistence.

History, for better and for worse, is made by those who never give up.

grit. In her book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Duckworth examines how grit is the quality that allows an individual to work hard and maintain focus—not just for weeks or months, but for years.

Go forward, he said to himself. Don't think about it. Survive.

nothing takes the place of persistence.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

Failure may be an option but quitting is not.

Flow starts when we say yes to the fight.

They are deliberately cultivating these states to solve critical challenges and outperform their competition. It isn't just grit, or better habits, or longer hours that are separating the best from the rest. To hear these trail-blazers tell it, the insights they receive in those states are what make all the difference.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

The thing I love about off-road racing is the pride in how abusive it is.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.