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Grit Quotes

With her grace and grit, and the will to lead change, Misty Copeland is truly a ballerina for our time.

Change Time Grace Grit Will Lead

Writing is such a 'pretend' profession. Nobody is counting on you at all. You can't 'pretend' to be a lawyer or a teacher. It takes a lot of grit to continue.

MacKenzie Bezos

Teacher Writing Lawyer Grit You

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Forgiveness Mistakes Grit Others Own

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Angela Duckworth

Small Grit Down Up Big Knocked

We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn't mean it's not. It's always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.

Angela Duckworth

Positive Future Grit You Bad Mean

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

Grace Grit First Anything Take Does

If you represent your country and millions of people are watching, it comes through a lot of grit and hard work.

Work Hard Work People Grit You Hard

I like high fantasy as much as the next guy, but I also like a bit of grit and grime with my faux-medieval trappings.

Antony Johnston

Grit Fantasy Next High Guy Like

Touring itself - and I was very young, and a lot of it I did by myself - it's lonely, but it does give you some kind of spine, I think. It does give you some kind of grit.

Myself Think Lonely Grit You Young

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

Pain Stupid Grit True Standards Had

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.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Storm Grit You Feeling Teeth Things

When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.

Hailee Steinfeld

Love Grit Innocent True Way Along

I've seen John Wayne's 'True Grit' about 10 times.

Grit True Seen About John Times

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

Effort Direction Grit You Become

There haven't been genetic studies on grit, but we often think that challenge is inherited but grit is learned. That's not what science says. Science says grit comes from both nature and nurture.

Angela Duckworth

Nature Science Challenge Think Grit

Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better.

Business Better Grit Desire Become

The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

Lukas Forchhammer

Good Music People Sweet Grit Edge

I was always drawn to darker sounds, things with an edge and a little bit of grit, things that have a lot of emotion and a lot of drive.

Drive Grit Edge Emotion Always

'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.

Good Fun Grit Look True Actor

We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the region, while in 'True Grit' it's more about period: people did speak more formally and floridly.

People Speak Language Loved Grit

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

Grit Goal Sometimes Returning Teeth

With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

Hailee Steinfeld

Language Grit You True Never Need

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

Perseverance Grit Bad Sometimes Rap

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

Angela Duckworth

Grit Self-Control Same Same Thing

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