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 and keep on working until the work is done. . . I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.
Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many times where we have the space to sit and reflect and really understand the depth of what it took and the grit that we had to have to get to where we are.
Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.
You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
Develop The Grit To be great.
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.
I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably well, with grace, humor, and fierce grit. Mock doesn't only redefine what realness means to her, but challenges us to rethink our own perceptions of gender and sexuality, feminism and sisterhood, making this book a transcendent piece of American literature.
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit
Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like. . . but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.
Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.
I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.