Grit Quotes

• From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Violence
  • Beauty
  • Cowboy

• 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

• I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

  

  John Glenn
  • True
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Bad
  • Rap
  • Perseverance

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Work
  • Long
  • Kids

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