If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I’m a firm believer in grit. You may be smarter than me, prettier than me, more talented than me, but I will, without a doubt, work harder than you. I pride myself on my insane work ethic, and it’s something that’s engrained in my being.
I’ve developed this intensity over the years, and it’s a defining quality that I’m very proud of. I wanted to share some of my favorite grit quotes with you today to help you push through whatever walls you may have. My personal mantra’s always been, ” suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret,” but some of these other quotes are up there as well.
A Roundup of the Best Grit Quotes
1. “Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up.” Spryte Loriano
2. “Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out and not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years.” Angela Lee Duckworth
3. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.” John Wayne
4. “What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It’s persistence. It’s making your own luck.” Peter Diamandis
5. “Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” Rick Warren
6. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Eliot
7. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.” Sonya Teclai
8. “God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.” Beth Moore
9. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius
10. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure.” Jack Ma
11. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.” Vince Lombardi
12. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoureau
13. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” Vince Lombardi Jr.
14. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair
15. “The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.” Henry Ward Beecher
16. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams
17. “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” Louis Pasteur
18. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” Walter Elliot
19. “The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.” Lady Aberdeen
20. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” Abraham Lincoln
21. “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance.” H. Jackson Brown
22. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” Randy Pausch
23. “Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.” Leigh Mitchell Hodges
24. “Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” Benjamin Disraeli
25. “If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘here comes number seventy-one!’” Richard M. Devos
26. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” Pele
27. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson
28. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela
29. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Albert Einstein
30. “Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest and do it again and again.” Sarah Lewis
31. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius
32. “So, what does perseverance mean? It means that one possesses persistence, tenacity, determination, and staying power. This in turn means, when applied to a problem or issue that needs to be resolved, that the individual never gives up, never quits and never sees defeat until the problem, challenge, project, obstacle is resolved to a satisfactory level.” Byron Pulsifer
33. “Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.” Winston Churchill
34. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda
35. “People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” George E. Allen
36. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
37. “It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” Anthony Robbins
38. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” Thomas Fuller
39. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
40. “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” John Ortberg
41. “The difference in winning and losing is most often. Not quitting.” Walt Disney
42. “To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.” Angela Lee Duckworth
43. “Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.” Lord Chesterfield
44. “The most essential factor is persistence – the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.” James Whitcomb Riley
45. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” Elbert Hubbard
46. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton
47. “You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.” Lou Holtz
48. “It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.” Lynn Davies
49. “Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.” Scott Hamilton
50. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” William Feather
Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed today’s quote roundup! Hungry for more? Then check out “40 Inspirational Quotes That Will Change Your Life” and “40 of the Best Quotes on Success.” If you enjoyed this post, please take a second to share with your friends so they can benefit as well. And as always, a huge thank you to Sung Shin for the wonderful photography. Until next time, friends!
