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It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself. -- Tom Chapin
Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit. -- Jonah Lehrer
Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. -- Jeff Bridges
Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you. -- Christine Lagarde
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. -- Yasser Arafat
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. -- Jessamyn West
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that. -- Hailee Steinfeld
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
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what. -- Harvey Weinstein
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. -- Chris Christie
Develop The Grit To be great. -- Barrett Brooks
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. -- Peter Diamandis
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. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
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
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
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
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 -- Chip Heath
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. -- John Ortberg
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else -- Brian May
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else. -- Brian May
True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. -- John Wayne
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem. -- James Patterson
Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit. -- Wade Davis
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine. -- Joe Biden
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me. -- Bradley Chicho
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. -- Richard Eyre
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. -- Ernie Harwell
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. -- Michael C. Hall
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit. -- Taisen Deshimaru
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
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
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. -- Rumer Godden
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride. -- Richard J. Foster
A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man? -- Henry Ward Beecher
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. -- Morley Safer
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity. -- Laurie Graham
I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure. -- Anne Lamott
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine. -- Susan Orlean
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia. -- Henry David Thoreau
I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it. -- Jennifer Nettles
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz. -- Alexander Cockburn
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience. -- Michael Cadnum
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile. -- Julia Child
Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across. -- Mary Roach
I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct. -- Troy Polamalu
If relationships were hard, mariage was even harder... it seemed like most couples struggled. It went with the territory. What did Nana always say? Stick two different people with two different sets of expectations under one roof and it ain't always going to be shrimp and grits on Easter. -- Nicholas Sparks
I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writing with every Tom, Dick and Harry around the world, including a chap named Charlie who plays for a man named Bob, to wrestle my emotions and bring out the raw grit hiding in my tightly guarded sub-conscious. -- Gin Wigmore
I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. -- Georges Bernanos
I'm excited about going back to 'Today,' but, at odd moments, I'll grit my teeth in anxiety. I feel like a student before the start of school. I've got my new shoes and my book bag, but I'm not sure I'll remember how to do trigonometry. During my maternity leave, I haven't used many words of more than one syllable. -- Jane Pauley
We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there. -- Harold S. Kushner
Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example. -- Bill Hybels
Machine guns are taken through grit and determination. -- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Wilshere looks like he's got the grit between his teeth -- Darren Gough
Sacredness grew like a pearl, sometimes around the most unlikely bits of grit. -- S.M. Stirling
If you grit your teeth and show real determination, you'll always have a chance. -- Charles M. Schulz
That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating. -- Kathryn Stockett
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't. -- Jack Ma
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. -- Nancy Kress
Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard. -- Robert W. Service
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? -- Anna Funder
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. -- Moss Hart
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. -- George Eliot
Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. -- Alex Lemon
The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way? -- Maile Meloy
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. -- Warren G. Bennis
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. -- Stephen King
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. -- B. C. Forbes
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder. -- Barbara Kingsolver
On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters." -- Stephen King
Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror. -- J. Arthur Thomson
I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn! -- Suzanne Collins
We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work. -- Dan Levitan
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world. -- Nancy Pearcey
Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance. -- Sai Baba
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all. -- James Lovegrove
Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace. -- Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true gritâ??sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable. -- Alicia Ostriker
Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus. -- Peter McWilliams
One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it. -- Lisa Alther
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred. -- Orison Swett Marden
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time. -- Joe Hill
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just write on and the end comes naturally. -- Greg Lake
A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence. -- Thomas Traherne
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. -- Walter Mason Camp
GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal. -- Linda Kaplan Thaler
Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs. -- David Brooks
That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of -- Lleyton Hewitt
Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg has crafted a compelling, heartbreaking thriller full of character, grit, and sorrow. Bravo -- Christopher Golden

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