Best 58 quotes in «grit quotes» category

Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

The part of the psyche that works in concert with consciousness and supplies a necessary part of the poem - the heat of a star as opposed to the shape of a star, let us say - exists in a mysterious, unmapped zone: not unconscious, not subconscious, but cautious. It learns quickly what sort of courtship it is going to be. Say you promise to be at your desk in the evenings, from seven to nine. It waits, it watches. If you are reliably there, it begins to show itself - soon it begins to arrive when you do. But if you are only there sometimes and are frequently late or inattentive, it will appear fleetingly, or it will not appear at all.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster

Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we've already made. As we recognize what we've invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.

You can shut out the memories and keep going, but you'll have to live with a heart that's healed wrong.

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.

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.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Develop The Grit To be great.

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

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

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.

If I don't love you, baby, grits ain't groceries.

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Success comes to the man who grits his teeth, squares his jaw and says, "There is a way for me and, by jingo, I'll find it".

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?

Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

Time just gets away from us.

The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar --- that's grits --- and good-looking women.

Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

. . and so it is that A Sensei may impart his knowledge of the martial Way and nurture your fighting abilities, but you must learn the wisdom of finding other ways than martial skills to solve your problems

A vivid - if somewhat melodramatic - firsthand description of what deliberate practice can feel like comes from dancer Martha Graham: 'Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration. There are daily small deaths.

An exceptional Sensei has traits such as patience and integrity. Otherwise, natural fighting ability, cruelty and aggressive behavior may be observed in most animal predators.

All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other people’s hearts and heart songs. She would learn it would take grit, and guts, and courage to make a difference. But the world will always need people who care enough to make a difference, so she needed to not miss her casting call.

Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or anywhere! The more you cultivate compassion the more will be your fulfillment, resilience, patience, grit, endurance and equanimity.

Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny

If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.