Top Grit Quotes

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Endure long enough for luck to strike

Grit Definition

(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

(n.) The coarse part of meal.

(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.

As a pearl is formed and its layers grow, a rich iridescence begins to glow. The oyster has taken what was at first an irritation and intrusion and uses it to enrich its value. How can you coat or fra...

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

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

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

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody A...

It's not about grades, or saaviness, or sex appeal. It's all about grit. The strength of your character is the strength of your character determines your success more than anything else.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster

But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so m...

When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and o...

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

NEVER give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.

In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something els...

Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.

The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.