Determination And Grit Quotes & Sayings

Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon. — Larry Watson

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine. — Joe Biden

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands. — Kelly LeBrock

A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist
Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings us back one hundred years to a magical time in Twain's family life, revealing a house that's brimming with love and laughter, as well as the profound heartbreaks of life. A Mark Twain Christmas only deepens our understanding and respect for both the man and his work. — Gilbert King

We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work. — Dan Levitan

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done. — Mark Twain

Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well. — Zig Ziglar

January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money. — Maj Sjowall

Remember that becoming people of integrity and honesty is not simply a matter of more personal determination, more grit, and more willpower; rather, it is accomplished through the enabling power of the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. — David A. Bednar

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it. — Alton Brown

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life. — Charles R. Swindoll

Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer. — Nick Cannon

Sometimes, "never let them see you sweat," is truly bad advice. The work of an individual who cares often exposes the grit and determination and effort that it takes to be present.
Perfecting your talk, refining your essay and polishing your service until all elements of you disappear might be obvious tactics, but they remove the thing we were looking for: you. — Seth Godin

If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance. — Charles M. Schulz

Whistle a birdcall. The mockingjay cocks its head and whistles the call right back at me. Then, to my surprise, Pollux whistles a few notes of his own. The bird answers him immediately. — Suzanne Collins

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. — Trey Parker

Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong. — Kate Lattey

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. — Star Jones

Life is indeed a storm and while there are times you can sit and watch from the safety of a window pane there are moments you need to grit your teeth and take on the wind and the rain. — Ken Scott

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination. — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. — B.C. Forbes

He was always thinking of what else to do and she told him that it was rare for her, because she had grown up not doing, but being. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). — Ajahn Brahm