103 Quotes About Grit

In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn’t wisdom. Any damned fool in the world knows it’s true, whether it’s a question of raising horses or writing plays. You simply have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom and spending years learning how to do it.

The question is not whether you have the money. It is whether you have the hustle. There's a difference!

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it.You cannot talk about faith. You have to live it.You cannot talk about the desert. You have to cross it.

trying to do things they can't yet do, failing, and learning what they need to do differently is exactly the way that experts practice.

The vocational approach at NOCCA (New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts) helps build grit in students. It teaches them how to be single-minded in pursuit of a goal, to sacrifice for the sake of a passion. The teachers demand hard work from their kids because they know, from personal experience, that creative success requires nothing less.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left.

Consistency of effort over the long run is everything