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107 Grit quotes by 95 unique authors

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit… — Taisen Deshimaru
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. — Warren G. Bennis
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well,… — Raquel Cepeda
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women. — Erk Russell
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. — S.M. Stirling
If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to… — William George Jordan
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry… — Thomas Traherne
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything… — Cliff Sloan
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years.… — Paul Tough
Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. — Jonah Lehrer
When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track… — Jenny Han
God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn… — Beth Moore
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. — Stephen King
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It… — Richard J. Foster
Develop The Grit To be great. — Unknown Author
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence… — Barry S. Strauss
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. — John Ortberg
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to… — Truman Capote
GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply… — Linda Kaplan Thaler
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't. — Jack Ma
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards. — Lewis Grizzard
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing… — Linda Ronstadt
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed… — Tom Chapin
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he… — John Wayne
Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable… — Sarah Lewis

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