Grit in Stoicism Quotes

"The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing."

"The Cookie Jar is a place in my mind where I put all things bad and good that shaped me. Some people try to forget the bad. I use my bad for strength."

"I was the sum total of the obstacles I had overcome."

"If you can get through doing things that you hate to do, on the other side is greatness."

"Mental toughness is a lifestyle."

"You are the only person responsible for your life."

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

"What is to give light must endure burning."

"I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out."

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."

"If you're not obsessed, you're just average."

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

"Becoming is better than being."

"Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The only way to get to the other side is to go through it."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

"If you're not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback."

"Your doubt is not a signal to stop. It is a signal to push through."

"Your most valuable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else."

"Persistence is self-discipline in action."

"The only way to find out what is possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—except to convictions of honour and good sense."