Grind Quotes

• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Interesting, Political

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• It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

  Mark Cuban

  Shortcuts, It Takes Time, Take Time

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• Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Men, Made, Polish

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• What makes you grind?  You have to always be chasing something.

  Ray Lewis

  Chasing

  "Miami Hurricanes Should Hire Ray Lewis" by J.J. Colagrande, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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  The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Life, Hard Work, Hardest

  FaceBook post by Ray Lewis from Apr 20, 2015

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• You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

  John Calipari

  Life Is

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

  Young Jeezy

  World, World Is Yours

  Song: Let's Get It, 2005

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• Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.

  Maureen Connolly

  Thinking, Tennis, Mind

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• Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Luck, Favors

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• Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

  Kevin Hart

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Years

  "Kevin Hart's Wild 'Ride' [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 20, 2014.

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• There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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  Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
  A vision without action is merely a dream
  Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

  Kevin Gates

  Dream, Persistence, Vision

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• God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sadness, Night, Years

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• Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.

  Holly Black

  Baby, Strong, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

  Andre Agassi

  Hard Work, Tennis, Substitutes

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

  Vince Lombardi

  Running, Volleyball, Heart

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.

  Charles A. Beard

  Mad, Firsts

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.

  Robbie Lawler

  Mma, Get Better, Trying

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• Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Patience, Justice, Waiting

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.697, Library of America

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• You gotta be hungry for it.  You’ve got to put everything you got on it.  EVERYTHING!  Every second.  You have to be the first one in line.  That’s how leaders are born.

  Ray Lewis

  Leader, Lines, Firsts

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• Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Graduation, Latin, Cheer Up

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mills of God grind slowly.

  Lord Acton

  Retribution, Exactness, Mills

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