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Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption. -- James Agee
When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption. -- Phil Donahue
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. -- Seamus Heaney
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
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal. -- Bess Streeter Aldrich
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. -- Robert Reich
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act. -- Paul Hawken
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing. -- Jeannette Walls
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. -- Robert M. Pirsig
You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years. -- Samantha Bee
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