Grit Quotes · Page 3

I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.

— Angela Duckworth

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.

— Huda Kattan

“One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating.”

— Adam M. Grant

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

— Christine Lagarde

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

— Anna Funder

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

— Nancy Kress

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

— Angela Duckworth

“Boring down through the haul from Iso didn’t just take vision, it took grit.”

— Angela Armstrong

Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for…

— Suman Rai

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

— Andi Oliver

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards…

— Ethan Coen

On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was…

— Phillipa Soo

Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

— Wade Davis

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you…

— Lacey Evans

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and…

— Charles Duhigg

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability…

— Dan Levitan

I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it…

— Lynda Carter

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt…

— John Shelton Reed

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again.…

— Don King

“If you want to bring forth grit in your child, first ask how much passion and perseverance you have for your own…

— Angela Duckworth

“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but…

— Evelyn Waugh

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape…

— Chip Heath

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think…

— Jessica Rothe

once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something…

— Martha Ostenso

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

— Angela Duckworth

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

— Andrew Yang

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

— Ben Sasse

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

— Meryl Streep

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

— David Robinson

I was born in Pittsburgh and my mother personifies that Steel City grit that makes the city what it is.

— Jason Taylor

“The question is not whether you have the money. It is whether you have the hustle. There's a difference!”

— Nicky Verd

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

— Angela Duckworth

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

— Maile Meloy

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

— Eddy Alvarez

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

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

“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.”

— James Patterson

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me.

— Mitt Romney