Grit Quotes

Kiss my grits!

— Flo

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

— Bill Hybels

One thing you can't teach is true grit.

— Julianna Pena

“The grit of the deathbed earth grows soft”

— Donald Revell

“Those loxies have some almighty grit.”

— Del Herring

“Success isn’t complicated. It’s just not convenient.”

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr

“Dog or horse was, on the whole, a promotion.”

— Jennifer Mugrage

“That woman grinds my grits, and that's a fact.”

— Nancy Turner

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

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

— Robert W. Service

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else

— Brian May

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

— Bradley Chicho

I learned how to be an athlete. I learned the true art of resiliency and grit.

— Eddy Alvarez

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one…

— Maile Meloy

“following through on our commitments while we grow up both requires grit and, at the same time, builds it.”

— Angela Duckworth

You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

— David Robinson

“That was undeniable. But what was also undeniable on this pressure-filled afternoon was Nishikori’s poise and grit.”

— Anonymous

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus,…

— Angela Duckworth

If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and…

— Stephen Jackson

The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of…

— J. Arthur Thomson

You have to have a certain amount of grit in your sound, and having real synths and talking certain elements outside your…

— Deadmau5

Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face - people don't lack goals, passion, grit, or drive -…

— Dan Pena

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm.…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

There's so many great Western films. Let's see, 'Red River,' any of those Henry Fonda movies are fantastic. Any of those John…

— Timothy Olyphant

“How often do people start down a path and then give up on it entirely? How many treadmills, exercise bikes, and weight…

— Angela Duckworth

Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre…

— Ethan Coen

I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game…

— Troy Polamalu

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to…

— Raquel Cepeda

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

— B. C. Forbes

“In her book Grit, social psychologist Angela Duckworth identifies the single quality that most marks those who succeed in life, those who…

— Will Dean

If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana…

— Nicholas Sparks

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

— Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

— Jonah Lehrer

I will always remain heart and grit.

— Gennaro Gattuso

“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”

— Holly Cupala

I like this book by Angela Duckworth called 'Grit.'

— Joe Harris

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

— Jeff Bridges

“I was eighteen and already tired.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse