Top 219 Grinding Quotes & Sayings

I'm a grinder. I've been grinding my whole life. Whatever task is in front of me, I'm going to try to accomplish it.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

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

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.

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.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

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

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

The truth is, in day-to-day life, I'm just grinding like everyone else.

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.

Some of ya'll SAY you be grinding but...you don't really know how to GRIND!!

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

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.

Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

You want to be a millionaire. But your values system says you believe in sleep more than grinding!

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.

We really be grinding and training every day.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

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.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

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

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

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

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

You should never protest outside a rich guy's home during the day because he's not there. He's at work grinding the faces of the poor.

I can't take anything back. I've just kept grinding and kept working.

The visual is everywhere in the streets, but in the industry, it's like you have to show up at this party and you can't take on the world in one day. It's a gradual process, but you can't let it frustrate you; you just have to keep grinding.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

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.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

You just have to keep grinding.

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.

I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I want it to be for that game and that pitcher.

I started gravitating towards Soundcloud. So, that was my hustle and then I met my manager Justin in 2012 and we were just grinding it out in New York.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top.

I'm excited about the old songs. That's a nice place to be after grinding out the music business for twenty years.

A no deal Brexit could bring Britain to a grinding halt and threaten the wellbeing of our country.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up 'Backstage' magazine auditions and grinding.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

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.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Just getting out of your town seems to be a pervasive thing in England. But I don't want to keep grinding the axe forever, it's boring.