No Gumption Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, people who got divorced were people who had no gumption.

Phil Donahue

#2. Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.

Jeannette Walls

#3. Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.

Claudia Cardinale

#4. Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad.

Kavita Kane

#5. In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking.

David Chiles

#6. People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Jack Kemp

#8. As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them.

Ewan McGregor

#9. Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

George W. Romney

#11. There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Mike Dooley

#12. Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?

Crystal Woods

#14. She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.

Crystal Woods

#15. With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.

Greg Walden

#16. He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

Jonathan Edwards

#17. Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a liberal or conservative activity; it is a sacred act.

Paul Hawken

#18. I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

Howard Gordon

#19. I like your spunk. However I am concerned about your gumption.

Mark Anderson

#20. Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#21. Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

L.M. Montgomery

#22. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Jeannette Walls

#23. he asks me what i do i tell him i work for a small company that makes packaging for - he stops me midsentence no not what you do to pay the bills what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

Rupi Kaur

#24. My trademark saying is probably "VAS HAPPENIN?!"

Zayn Malik

#25. It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

#26. You've got all this. . . this love - no, it's louder than love. It's passion and beauty built up inside you that deserves to burst out," I whispered against his mouth as we came up for air.

Jessica Topper

#27. A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding.

Terry Fallis

#28. Any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

Michael Lewis

#29. Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. As the brother of a retired law enforcement officer, I know firsthand that our men and women in uniform perform their duties in the face of tremendous threats and significant personal risk. They put their lives on the line every day, and they often have to make split-second decisions.

Eric Holder

#31. They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

Diane Chamberlain

#32. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Robert M. Pirsig

#33. Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Seamus Heaney

#34. Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.

Joan Jett

#35. Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing's quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret

Robert M. Pirsig

#36. I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults - librarians, friends' parents - suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.

Laura Miller

#37. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#38. To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.

Brian Tracy

#39. A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.

Maya Rodale

#40. But I believe that girls need gumption, too, especially in this day and age. I believe you are a girl with gumption.

Anita Diamant

#41. I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, fuck-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country.

Robert M. Pirsig

#42. A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.

David Sedaris