Best 77 quotes in «grind quotes» category

You know you're doing something right when you've haters around every corner.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

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. I suppose you could say that.

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.

As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

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.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Environment grinds us, forces us to adjust, and--consciously or not--kills our most precious possession: that something which enables us to speak with ourselves and with God.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.

Financial freedom is our birthright, rather than the "slave walk" of the Monday through Friday grind.

God grinds the axes he intends to use.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Grind Hard, Shine Hard.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

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.

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.

I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

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.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

I think I'm just now startin' to get to the point where fans are startin' to respect my grind, and respect my lyrics and things that I'm gettin' into, and they see the hunger in me, and they know that I wanna become the best, and I'm just tryin' to prove myself. I feel like it would be a letdown if I stopped now.

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.

Just out here workin' hard and doin' what we do best: grind, hustle, and anything possible to create new opportunities.

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.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind.

Rise and grind... the money ain't gonna wait for you while you sleep son.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

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.

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

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.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

The mills of God grind slowly.