God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In its rather clinical view of death, 'True Grit' rivals the hardboiled world of 'Red Harvest'-era Dashiell Hammett and prefigures Cormac McCarthy… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Of course, natural talent also matters, but once you have a pool of candidates above the threshold of necessary potential, grit is… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
It's definitely got a lot more grit to it. And, we don't pretend to be the smartest people there. We're not like,… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty… — Banks Copy Share Image
“Nobles’ sons are one of nature’s great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you’re struck with one of these catastrophes, the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On long car rides, we would always listen to the 'Blues Brothers' soundtrack and try to emulate everything that Aretha Franklin was… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
“Grits Pearl of Wisdom #31: Grits can admit their mistakes--and we all make some bad ones--but we never accept defeat. ” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“According to Dr. Angela Duckworth, grit is passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. [...] Grit is sticking to one thing for years… — Benjamin P. Hardy Copy Share Image
Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence. — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.” — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
If you represent your country and millions of people are watching, it comes through a lot of grit and hard work. — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
You have your best workouts when you go in thinking you don't want to do it, because you're so satisfied with your… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
“An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in… — Soke Behzad Ahmadi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like Shah Rukh for his wit, intelligence, grit and determination, and Akshay for the way he interacts with people. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
“The grit in his tone felt like the perfect pumice stone, smoothing edges of me that had been rough for as long… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
I kept going. The decisions I've had to make, the setbacks, the feeling of having my back against the wall, I was… — Eddy Alvarez Copy Share Image
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image