Top 60 Grinding Quotes

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants. The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.

I can’t see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

I am so stressed that my dentist told me I am grinding my teeth due to stress. So, every evening, I get shooting pain from my jaw to my head.

My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She’s an amazing producer, writer. You know, we’re just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

You’ve just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You’ve got to go out there and just keep playing.

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‘Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,’ you’re working for you.

I created my own little online series, ‘Love, Life & Music,’ years ago, before reality TV got poppin’. I wanted my fans to see that I wasn’t just here sitting on my hands. I’m out here every day, grinding and working.

When you buy a company that’s been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in place, but that’s the end of the glory for three to five years, grinding it out one day after the other.

The whole thing about Tool is that it kind of feeds on itself. If it’s going, it’s going. If it’s at a grinding halt, there’s either the will to pick it up again and get it going or not. We’ve been through serious stages of nothing… business problems or personal problems or whatever.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

That year of modeling, I grew up a lot – I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. and taking care of yourself.

I’ve had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I’ve had decisions. I’ve had grinding fights.

I’ve had so many conversations over the years with Phil Simms about just grinding it out and winning ugly.

President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the grinding Syrian civil war to the flexing of Russian muscles under President Vladimir Putin to how to deal with ISIS as the terrorist army retreats in Iraq.

Many times good actors I have known in New York accept series. I tune in at the beginning of the new season and think ‘He’s really working.’ But six months later, if I tune in again, the actor is on a treadmill, grinding it out as best he can, and he can’t help it.

2012, I feel like I was still grinding. It was a good year for me, but that was my year breaking down the barriers. It was like my introduction.

Before ‘New Girl,’ I had just been grinding in TV for a really long time. I had been testing for so many shows and not getting them. You don’t know how difficult it is or how lucky you have to be – and I only say lucky because there are so many people out there – to get a show on the air and keep it going.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it’s not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher’s pitches, really.

I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.

There’s certain points in the season – I think players go through it and teams go through it – where you just have stretches and you’re stuck in a rut or you feel like nothing’s going right. You just got to keep grinding, and eventually it’ll turn.

It is a grind lifestyle and it never ends until you get hurt and then you sit home rehabbing for three months or whatever it is until you get back straight on that train grinding again, which is how you make your money in the pro wrestling world.

I’m usually out there grinding. You see a birdie go up on the board, and you’re not thinking about how it affects the tournament because you’re playing.

I want to keep grabbing, keep reaching, keep crawling, keep grinding and excelling until I can go no higher.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

It’s been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I’ve been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I’ve done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.

At this point, I’m just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.

I’m not going to change; I’m going to keep grinding. I’m going to do all I can to win.

The way that I was taught to play baseball, and to me the way baseball has always been, is… Look, we play 162 games. It’s a grinding, hard-nosed game. And even when I was a kid it was about not showing up your opponent. It was about playing the game with class. But, obviously I think you should have fun doing it.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Leary can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

You get into a tough spot where you’re not feeling good and you can’t do what you’re typically accustomed to doing, you just keep grinding.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it’s good to laugh about it. That’s my stance on life, actually. Some people go through life grinding their teeth, suffering and banging their head against the wall. I’m glad that’s not the reaction that occurs in me.

You just have to keep grinding.

Fitch isn’t as much of a finisher as Thiago Alves, he’s more about grinding his opponent into the ground – literally. With my jiu-jitsu, I could withstand that and do better than a lot of guys have done.

I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you’ve got another show to do – whatever moment of success or happiness you have you’ve got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

I think a lot of times with football players, we’re just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

I like to work on a number of things simultaneously. If you’re working on a variety of projects and if you get stuck on one of them, you can move to another without grinding your gears indefinitely.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

I’m trying to get some Pro Bowls, All-Pros and whatnot. I’ve got to keep my head down, keep grinding.

Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn’t have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I’d record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.

I think the biggest thing is to continue grinding and not let the crowds of people get in the way of you’re trying to do.

That’s why it’s hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League – because it’s over 38 games. You can’t play well in every game, but it’s about grinding out results.

You define great players as guys that are out there grinding, battling every day with their team.

I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and the show ‘The Unit.’ Got a little part in the movie ‘Redbelt’ by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

I try to work on all aspects of my game, whether it be run, pass. I think you can never stop growing, and I definitely take that mindset. You’ve just got to keep on grinding.