Quotes about Grit

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

I've always liked watching wrestling, but once you are on the other end of it, you develop a certain passion for it and respect for it, and I would like to accomplish everything I want to before calling it quits.

What will keep us from stopping? Plain old stubbornness.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Perserverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

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.