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grit

«It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.»
«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.»
«Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past»
«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.»
«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?»
«Don't that just butter your grits»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: butter, grit, grits, gritted, gritting