“Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.”

“Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.”

“Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.”

“Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.”

“I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.”

“We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.”

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

“A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths.”

“...grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned...”

“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”

“The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.”

“I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all thing...”

“Jiu Jitsu has given me something to pursue. We all need something to work towards. For people, as well as every piece of matter in the universe, there is no such thing as maintenance. If you are no...”