Grit Quotes

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.

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.

If there was ever a time to boil up some grits it is now.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

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

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

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

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.

The biggest chance you can take in life is by not taking any chances at all. It's important, but music is my heart and this is what makes me the most revenue, so be grit, don't quit.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.

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

Time just gets away from us.

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!

Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

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.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Develop The Grit To be great.

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

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.

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.

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.

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

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.

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

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

I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.

Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.

It's definitely got a lot more grit to it. And, we don't pretend to be the smartest people there. We're not like, "This is how we did it, and now we're just going to show you how we go catch them. The audience gets to figure it out with us.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

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

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

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

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

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

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

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