Quotes about Grit

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Sometimes the only difference between those who attain and those who don't is perseverance.

to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Will-power, he saw, was not a thing one could suddenly decree oneself to possess. It must be built up imperceptibly and laboriously out of a succession of small efforts to meet definite objects, out of the facing of daily difficulties instead of cleverly eluding them, or shifting their burden on others.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

When you're not winning it's easy to complain!

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man.

Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.

I have always been of the belief that whatever the conditions, you just crack on with it.