Grit Quotes
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.
I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally.
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.
Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable.
If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.
A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.
Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better
This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.
The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.
Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.
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.
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.
Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.
The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.
Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.
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.
Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster
You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.
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.
An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.
