Top 100 Grind Quotes
#1. You will work harder at something you love than at something you like. You will work harder than you have ever worked when you start chasing a dream. You will hustle and grind and sweat and push and pull. You will get up earlier and go to bed later. But that's okay.
Jon Acuff
#2. Shooting a season can be a grind. It can be seven to eight months of work. Once you stop, it slows down any momentum you had.
Cress Williams
#3. There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and
practicing.
Robert C. Martin
#4. Crafty writers ... don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#6. The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.
LaNina King
#7. Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.
Jason Fried
#8. They grind their hips toward each other, and I wonder why the slightest bit of booze turns chicks into lesbos.
Victoria Scott
#9. There's no real outlet for making Hip-Hop in Alabama. You need to travel to get heard. You really need to be working though. You need to be going at it every day and getting yourself seen, getting yourself out there on the road, doing shows, making music. It's all about being on your grind.
Yelawolf
#10. Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.
Abigail Johnson
#11. Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle
#12. I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
Vince Lombardi
#13. But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My
Frances Mayes
#14. At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.
Frederick Buechner
#15. Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine
Sun Tzu
#16. PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.
Samuel Johnson
#17. C'mon, sweetness. You don't have to run. I won't hurt you."
A pause, as though he was contemplating.
"Much." he amended, punctuating this last with a high-pitched tittering laugh that seemed to settle at the base of her neck like a giant insect, making her grind her teeth.
Kaine Andrews
#19. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or, Don't be.
Margaret Atwood
#20. Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive
Drake
#21. Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.
Jonathan Stroud
#22. Don't stop chasing your dreams ... you can only take a five min water and bathroom break then back to your grind.
Darrius Garrett
#23. Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.
Big Sean
#24. He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#25. It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull
#26. My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and harps, timbales and drums. I can only recognize myself as symphony.
Fernando Pessoa
#27. Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi
#28. Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Gore Vidal
#29. I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
#30. Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. You can get embittered if you train too hard and have nothing else on your mind. You have to be able to relax between matches and between tournaments.
Maureen Connolly
#31. Illegitimi non carborundum --don't let the bastards grind you down
Sadie Munroe
#32. I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.
Ace Hood
#34. Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.
Zig Ziglar
#35. Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes-- but sloth will slide us back into the sea.
Jessie Burton
#36. Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.
Virginia Woolf
#37. Only in drama does it end with the tragedy; in life it grinds on. Moanday, tearsday, happy days, right through to Shatterdays. And Again.
Gayla Reid
#38. A library will continue to function nicely without every other position, but without the pages it would grind to a stop within a quiet afternoon. All pages know this ...
Don Borchert
#39. I grind so fine, I'm practically coffee, he says with a straight face, then busts out a grin.
Jillian Dodd
#40. The seconds pass. I know what's going on because it's the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or want or need, and I'll find a way to grind it into dust.
Jennifer Egan
#41. You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really ... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and ... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.
John C. McGinley
#42. Downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.
Charles Bukowski
#43. I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.
Jon Tester
#44. I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.
Judy Gold
#46. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
Thomas Carlyle
#47. Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith
#48. I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
Harmony Korine
#49. It's a lot of people that's tried to stop my grind, there's been a lot of hate, but even more love.
Ace Hood
#50. I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Art Donovan
#51. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.
Thom Yorke
#52. I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight.
Johnny Weir
#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. Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
Julian Barnes
#55. Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.
Mark Hoppus
#56. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Charles A. Beard
#57. There are moments during the day when I just grind to a halt and simply cannot find the energy to draw another breath.
Tabitha Suzuma
#58. I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle
#60. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
Alicia Keys
#61. When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
Pat Riley
#62. I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly
#63. I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.
Robbie Lawler
#64. There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready.
Robert Penn Warren
#65. The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun.
Kirko Bangz
#67. I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.
Josh Hartnett
#68. Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Roy Blount Jr.
#69. Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
Marcia Gay Harden
#70. So many of my followers who just graduated can't get jobs; they're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and they don't know what to do. My dream is to see a new generation of entrepreneurs who are creating and having more meaningful jobs than the day-to-day grind.
Michelle Phan
#71. Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
Philip James Bailey
#72. Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!
Friedrich Schiller
#73. Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.
Guy Kawasaki
#74. I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.
Caitriona Balfe
#76. At the end of the day music is a grind. You're constantly working at it and even with playing shows as well. If your schedule isn't planned right it could really throw things off, but honestly at the end of the day its incredible being able to go to so many places.
James Vincent McMorrow
#77. TO GRIND OR NOT TO GRIND. THAT IS THE QUESTION. NO! THAT IS THE ANSWER !
Lorenzo Victory
#78. The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
Charles Dickens
#79. The bad ones want you to work around them and their time and the decent ones want too much time. I just don't have it. I am in grind mode. I do not have time to be a mother, a student, a home health care worker and a girlfriend to someone. Now a fuck partner, yea I could get with that.
M.J. Sparks
#80. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!
Yasser Seirawan
#81. People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind,
Scott Eastwood
#82. When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.
Arsenio Hall
#83. Don't let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I'll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I'm down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.
Willow Smith
#84. Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
Cato The Younger
#85. Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#86. Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Jakob Dylan
#87. Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if for only a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.
Rabih Alameddine
#88. When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#89. My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
#90. I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...
Dora Russell
#91. Be authentic to your dreams. Be authentic to your own idea about yourself. Grind away at your own minds and bodies until you become your own invention. Be Mad Scientists.
Warren Ellis
#92. Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It's the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
Glen Hirshberg
#93. The NHL is the best league in the world, but it's a grind. You sometimes forget, especially if you are losing, or missing the playoffs ... how fun this game can be.
Thomas Vanek
#94. The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Ray Lewis
#95. I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.
Steve-O
#96. Then maybe I'll hit on this sweaty, oversexed football player. Maybe we'll have meaningful discussions about politics and philosophy while we bump 'n grind. Ugh. Yeah, right.
Kody Keplinger
#97. A lot of your daily grind is going to be one large game of Distraction Whack-a-Mole.
Monica Leonelle
#98. MIND & GRIND
Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers
Kamil Ali
#99. We remember the grind of the insurgency
the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south
your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.
Barack Obama
#100. When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
Robert Kennedy
