Grit Quotes

• True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

  John Wayne

  Leadership, Sports, Men

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• GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

  Linda Kaplan Thaler

  Hard Work, Optimistic, Focus

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• Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Stubborn, Quitting, Refusal

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• Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Hard Work, Persistence

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

  Peter Diamandis

  Giving Up, Persistence, Luck

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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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• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Men

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• Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

  Taisen Deshimaru

  Inspirational, Hands, Desert

  "Zen to Go" by Jon Winokur, (p. 126), 1989.

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• Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

  John Ortberg

  Aimlessness, Fruitful Life

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• Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Determination, Battle, Arena

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• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

  B. C. Forbes

  Determination, Exercise, Fighting

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• Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Party, Opposites, Two

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

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• Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
  It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

  Robert W. Service

  Military, Quitting, Chin Up

  ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

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• Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Heart, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58

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• True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

  John Wayne

  Basketball, Decision, Done

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• Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

  Jeff Bridges

  Men, True Grit

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• It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

  Jessamyn West

  Forgiveness, Easter, Mistake

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• Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Want, Easy, Settling

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

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• A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

  Thomas Traherne

  Eye, Sight, Perspective

  Thomas Traherne (2007). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.241, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Develop The Grit To be great.

  Barrett Brooks

  Making Money

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• Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

  Chip Heath

  Hard Work, Tunnels, Months

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• Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Dream, Believe, Persistence

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• Time just gets away from us.

  Charles Portis

  True Grit, Get Away

  Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.262, The Overlook Press

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• I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

  Michael C. Hall

  Thinking, Southern, Breakfast

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

  Yasser Arafat

  Order, Goal, Teeth

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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