If the world is your oyster, why are some people so full…

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

— Angela Duckworth

Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that.

— Dustin Poirier

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there…

— Michael Cadnum

Londoners are really good at dealing with any crap that's thrown at them. We hunker down, we grit our teeth and we get on…

— Andi Oliver

You know I'm from North Carolina, so I grew up eating grits, honey.

— Tabitha Brown

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

— Laura Moser

“The grits were lumpy, but the flavor was incredible: the garlic and onion powder, the cayenne's heat lingering after every bite, the creamy tang…

— Shauna Robinson

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes…

— John Kendrick Bangs

“Before all the little mean things she told me gathered and gathered and lodged like grit in a skinned knee.”

— Jesmyn Ward

Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you…

— John Ortberg

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who…

— Jim Harrison

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he…

— Tom Chapin

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

— John Wayne

“Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit. What’s good…

— Sharon E. Rainey

Develop The Grit To be great.

— Barrett Brooks