Top 90 Grit Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.”

— Jahangir Khan

52. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”

— Angela Duckworth

53. “Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.”

— Kevin Hart

54. “A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

— Orison Swett Marden

55. “Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.”

— Angela Duckworth

56. “There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”

— Oscar Micheaux

57. “Hard work always wins in the end.”

— Lucas Till

58. “If I stop writing I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.”

— Charles Bukowski

59. “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.”

— Hamilton Holt

60. “It is always too soon to quit.”

— V. Raymond Edman

61. “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.”

— Nora Roberts

62. “Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

63. “Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

— William Ernest Henley

64. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

65. “People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it.”

— Chris Gardner

66. “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”

— Bethany Hamilton

67. “Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

68. “The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”

— Napoleon Hill

69. “Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”

— Booker T. Washington

70. “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

— William Ellery Channing

71. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

— Orison Swett Marden

72. “Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

73. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.”

— John Wayne

74. “Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.”

— Swami Vivekananda

75. “It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”

— Gene Roddenberry

76. “Whatever it takes for you to believe that you’re better than good enough to achieve your dreams is what you must do. And remember, your greatness is not tied to any outcome. It is found in the valiance of the attempt.”

— David Goggins

77. “The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads.”

— Ray Zahab

78. “The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.”

— Mia Hamm

79. “Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.”

— Gabby Douglas

80. “If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.”

— Mas Oyama

81. “A prepared mind craves the worst conditions because it knows that pressure brings out its best and exposes almost everyone else.”

— David Goggins

82. “Suicide is no solution. Keep fighting.”

— Hayley Williams

83. “If it felt good, you didn’t push hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.”

— Dean Karnazes

84. “Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.”

— Richard M. Nixon

85. “The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.”

— Gabby Douglas

86. “I’m very determined. If I decide that something is worth doing, then I’ll put my heart and soul to it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is right, I’ll do it.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

87. “The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.”

— Dwayne Johnson

88. “How to succeed? Try hard enough.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

89. “Regardless of how much is left in the tank, you gotta fight back!”

— Eric Thomas

90. “Don’t waste time on excuses. Just get it done.”

— Ralph Marston

91. “It’s not a sin to get knocked down; it’s a sin to stay down.”

— Carl Brashear

92. “No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.”

— Joel Osteen

93. “My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable – one just has to try harder and harder.”

— Kiran Bedi

94. “They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.”

— Bhagat Singh

95. “Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

96. “I may win and I may lose, but I will never be defeated.”

— Emmitt Smith

97. “A black belt is a white belt who never quits!”

— Renzo Gracie

98. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb