103 Quotes About Grit

Paul was still unconscious so I propped her up on my shoulders and dragged her... I felt myself straining to breathe and move on, felt my muscles become wobbly and sore, but I kept on going. - from The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange

Paul was still unconscious so I propped her up on my shoulders and dragged her... I felt myself straining to breathe and move on, felt my muscles become wobbly and sore, but I kept on going.

Man," Fonny says, "we just have to move it from day to day. If you think too much about it, you really are fucked, can't move at all.

I once thought my lack of grit was a character flaw; I now think it speaks to how uncomfortable I’ve been in my body my whole life. It takes a lot of energy to hold in Calls, to not cry or express rage. It’s exhausting to act civilized when you’re navigating the rim surrounding a giant black hole, when your anguish is invisible and probably of no interest to the world.

Pete's philosophy is: Do things better than they have ever been done before.

I hope one daysomebody loves youso muchthat they see violetsin the bags under your eyes,sunsets in the downward archof your lipsthat they recognize youas something green,something fresh and still growingeven if sometimesyou are growing sidewaysthat they do not waste their timetrying to fix you.

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how to keep on working until the work is done. Woody Allen famously declared that "eighty percent of success is showing up." NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) teaches kids how to show up again and again.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.