That gal’s got gumption, don’t she?” Dobro marveled. “That…

You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

— Samantha Bee

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

— James Agee

“I like your spunk. However I am concerned about your gumption.”

— Anonymous

“I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until…

— Aisha Tyler

“What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?”

— Crystal Woods

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.”

— David Sedaris

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

— Seamus Heaney

You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes…

— Boris Johnson

There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or…

— James E. Faust

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot…

— B. C. Forbes

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not…

— Paul Hawken

If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just…

— Margaret Mitchell

“I like the word ‘gumption’ because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a…

— Robert Pirsig

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone -…

— Robert Reich