Gumption Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a… — Paul Hawken
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption. — Phil Donahue
There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change… — James E. Faust
A person filled with gumption doesnâ€™t sit about stewing about things. Heâ€™s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see… — Robert M. Pirsig
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of… — B. C. Forbes
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthâ€”and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was… — Robert Reich
Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. — James Agee
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. — Jessamyn West
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasnâ€™t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done,… — Jeannette Walls
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. — Seamus Heaney
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as… — Margaret Mitchell
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. — Robert M. Pirsig
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. — Jessamyn West
Bobby, you go pick something from the adventure section....anything about a boy with gumption should be fine. — Hank Hill

Who Wrote These Gumption Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Gumption Quotes as follows: