Quotes About Gumption

#1. Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

Dave Barry

#2. So, how'd you know about this place?"
"One of my buddies is from Baltimore area - I texted him."
"Saying what? 'Hey dude, know any secluded places?' He probably thinks you're a serial killer."
"I think I said 'romantic and private'.

Emery Lord

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. 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

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

Robert M. Pirsig

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

Phil Donahue

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

Joan Jett

#11. I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

David D. Burns

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Anita Diamant

#17. Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

William Congreve

#18. 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

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

David Sedaris

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

Seamus Heaney

#21. 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

#22. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Michael Carbonaro

#23. 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

#24. Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed

Pablo

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

Mike Dooley

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

Jeannette Walls

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

Crystal Woods

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

Crystal Woods

#29. 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

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

Mark Anderson

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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