Quotes about Grit

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint

Don't whine. Don't complain. Don't make excuses.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.

Success is a derivative of persistence.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

It's always to soon to quit!

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.