Grit Quotes

• Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• 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 with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Giving
  • Lost

• The rabble closed in; I was encircled; grit flew in my face like shrapnel.  Tall girls with frizzled hair, and huge boys with sharp elbows, began to prod me with hideous interest.  They plucked at my scarves, spun me round like a top, screwed my nose and stole my potato.

  

  Laurie Lee
  • Hair
  • Grit

• You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Grit

• The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Sometimes
  • Grit
  • Pearls

• I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Music
  • Country
  • Culture

• I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.

  

  Antony Johnston
  • High
  • Guy
  • Grit

• I want you to think about your grandfather's integrity and grit when you're staring at the ceiling of your barracks room, but I also want you to think a little deeper.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Integrity
  • Grit

• Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Rock
  • Mountain
  • Solitude

• I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • American
  • Age
  • Hand

• Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Today
  • Education

• Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Training
  • Grit

• No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Courage
  • Determination
  • Grit

• As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • Work
  • Experience

• Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Bad
  • Rap
  • Perseverance

• Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Long
  • Success
  • Intelligence

• The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  

  Anna Funder
  • Past
  • Grit
  • Pearl

• You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants... We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Good
  • Luck
  • Grit

• We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Positive

• For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.

  

  Jeff Carlson
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Loyalty

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