Top 100 The Grind Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.
Judy Gold
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.
Arsenio Hall
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
Young Buck
#14. A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open ...
Billy Gibbons
#15. It just inspires me to release an album and know that I can work on a core fanbase. The grind: Just make good music and it translates.
Kid Ink
#16. When I'm looking for Zen and I'm not saying this facetiously at all - I would really rather surf, scuba dive, or fly my plane. And, when I feel tension about the grind of work, it's not getting the money to make films versus making films that constitutes the grind, it's all this stuff.
Edward Norton
#17. You're at the age where the rush of the job has passed and the grind of the job is taken in stride, and this is the time when you're wondering if it wouldn't be so bad if you just stopped giving much of a shit and rolled along doing as little as possible.
Warren Ellis
#18. I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that.
Will Smith
#19. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#20. Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.
Bob Myers
#21. When you go home at night, let your home be the place where you disconnect from the world and the grind of your job. Limit your social-media usage. Surfing Facebook keeps you connected physically, relationally, and emotionally to friends, work, and responsibilities. In turn, you wear down.
Ted Cunningham
#22. Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
A vision without action is merely a dream
Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence
Kevin Gates
#23. When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.
Laura Amy Schlitz
#24. People like me know that there is no magic. There is only the grind. Work looks like magic to those unwilling to do it.
David Wong
#25. It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.
Patrick O'Brian
#26. You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.
John Calipari
#27. The theologians,
the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed
statesmen, and others, no longer interest me. All that has been spoilt for
me by the grind of stern reality!
Thomas Hardy
#28. Greatness is sifted through the grind, therefore don't despise the hard work now for surely it will be worth it in the end.
Sanjo Jendayi
#29. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.
Enaka Yembe
#30. Our connection didn't have the bandwidth to sustain the pain buried far enough in our past to cause the grind of our present. His past belonged to her, even though she'd cut the line, taking it with her, tugging at him, leaving no one else for him to give it to.
C.D. Reiss
#31. -Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.
Jonathan Kellerman
#32. Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Simon Baker
#33. It's about being able to go through the grind, willing to get back up when you're knocked down. And when life's not going well, not getting down on yourself and just getting back up and getting back to work, and striving to be the best you can be.
Robbie Lawler
#34. 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
#35. They grind their hips toward each other, and I wonder why the slightest bit of booze turns chicks into lesbos.
Victoria Scott
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes-- but sloth will slide us back into the sea.
Jessie Burton
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Charles A. Beard
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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.
#53. 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
#54. The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Ray Lewis
#56. Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.
Kavita Bhupta Ghosh
#57. He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
J.G. Holland
#58. So you, the kings, you too must reflect upon this punishment, because the immortals are here in the midst of manking, observing those who do not hold the gods in awe ... but grind each other down with crooked judgements
Hesiod
#59. I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
Bill Paxton
#60. You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Wentworth Miller
#61. Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence ... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.
Walter J. Phillips
#62. The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.
Russell Simmons
#63. So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
Tony Blair
#64. With it all independent I feel like we're doing it one person at a time turning people into believers one person at a time. Just that good old-fashioned grind, get out there, touch the people.
Ryan Montgomery
#65. The land of opportunities that appeared greener when they were on the other side of the world deceptively veiled the harsh terrains which could only be transformed into fertile oasis with the passage of time and tough grind.
Neetha Joseph
#66. His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift.
But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
Ken Kesey
#67. It is about what you do when nobody is watching. Can you always stay on your grind, or are you only a star when the lights are on you and everybody is watching?
Ian Warner
#68. The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz
#69. God grinds the axes he intends to use.
Dave Sim
#70. During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it's all to easy to forget the fact that the person you're doing so much for is, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.
Naoki Higashida
#71. Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
Casey Stengel
#72. 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
#73. Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?
Sylvia Plath
#74. Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it
Charles Spurgeon
#75. At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.
Al Franken
#76. The Judge, whose eyes had gone in the general direction, recalled them, leaned back in his seat, and looked steadily at the man whose life was in his hand, as Mr. Attorney-General rose to spin the rope, grind the axe, and hammer the nails into the scaffold.
Charles Dickens
#77. The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.
Suheir Hammad
#78. Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#79. There's just one move a man needs to know in order to rock it on the dance floor."
"Yeah? What's the move?"
"STAG"
"What's stag?"
"The only one of Logan's crazy acronyms I live my life by-STAG. Stand there and grind.
Elle Kennedy
#80. But just when I thought I was going to get away, the creaky machinery of his face began to grind and a cardboard dawn of recognition was lowered, with jerks, from the dusty proscenium.
Donna Tartt
#81. I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.
Adam Brody
#82. The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.
Greg Iles
#83. Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.
Madonna Ciccone
#84. The other way that rocks are smoothed is by grinding against each other. God has placed us among people who manage to rub us the wrong way. I am sure that you may feel this way about more than one person in your life. I am convinced we will always be given someone to grind on us!
Andrew Mullek
#85. We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.
Richard Chandler
#86. The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses.
Chris Matakas
#87. The reason we don't get what we want isn't because we don't have the ability or time. We aren't willing to do the things we need to do when we don't feel like doing them. There's an impact of that entitlement on their business. The attitude is you learn to fall in love with the daily grind.
Rory Vaden
#88. One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth? We have our answer in the fertile soil which spreads over the temperate regions of the globe. The glacier was God's great plough.
Louis Agassiz
#89. The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.
Bill Nye
#90. There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. I like playing tennis. I've always enjoyed the process of being a tennis player; I'm just not sure that I enjoyed the travel at the end, and my body didn't recover from the day-to-day grind.
Andy Roddick
#92. Marveling yet again at the way the very same things that cause him to grind his teeth-with a different lens, a tighter focus, better lighting-look like love.
Maud Casey
#93. As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
#94. I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.
Haruki Murakami
#95. Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.
John Muir
#96. Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
Pam Ferris
#97. If I were going to paint the dimension I see in front of me, I'd load my palette up with burnt umber, opaque black, a spectrum of grays - nothing brighter than that. I'd have to grind something into the paint with my thumb, some sort of grit or ash, because the grime here goes deeper than surfaces.
Claudia Gray
#98. America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.
D.H. Lawrence
#99. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.
David Wong
#100. The company that writes your paycheck every two weeks is not your employer; they are your customer. Adopt this mind-set and everything changes. You are free from the daily grind - free to grow your business and serve your customers, your fellow man.
Daniel Lapin
