Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you. — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit. — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
That's a very nice compliment, for somebody to be described as having grit, having some gravel in the gut. — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.” — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are.… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
“It's not about grades, or saaviness, or sex appeal. It's all about grit. The strength of your character is the strength of… — Jennifer Coletta Copy Share Image
Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my… — E-40 Copy Share Image
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and… — Walter Mason Camp Copy Share Image
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle… — Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr Copy Share Image
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower;… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar… — Lauren Gibbs Copy Share Image
“This, I now know, is how people go crazy and do things they regret. Look at the woman who almost killed Al… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Being given the honorary rank of brat is the armed services' way of saying thank you to us kids for having grit… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to… — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
“All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance. — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Boring down through the haul from Iso didn’t just take vision, it took grit.” — Angela Armstrong Copy Share Image
Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“With God, grit, and humility, I don’t just solve my problems, I create paths for others.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
With wisdom and grit, my mom was able to lift me and my family to a higher rung on the economic ladder. — Wes Moore Copy Share Image
“To them I was first a Black, then a Black from another country, and then a person.” — Maria Nhambu Copy Share Image
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.” — Bethany Kaczmarek Copy Share Image
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
