Gumption Quotes

“Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.”
― Joan Jett

“There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.”
― Mike Dooley

“I like the word ‘gumption’ because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn’t likely to reject anyone who comes along. I like it also because it describes exactly what happens to someone who connects with Quality. He gets filled with gumption.

“A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit around dissipating and stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption.

If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.”
― Robert Pirsig

“She lives like tomorrow isn't coming and yesterday never happened.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“What good is it if they miss your face but not your mind?”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“I believe fully that if you want to do something, you just go do it. You can sit around, think about it, waiting until things are perfect, wringing your hands, dithering and hesitating and slowly twisting your panties into a perfect little fisherman’s knot. Or you can get up off your lazy fucking ass and do something. What’s the worst that can happen?”
― Aisha Tyler, Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

“I like your spunk. However I am concerned about your gumption.”
― Mark Anderson

“I was beginning to feel that there would never be another American uprising, that the energy was gone, and I have some reasons to think that might be true. I like to point out that the crime rate in America has been declining for a long time, and in my opinion it’s because Americans don’t even have enough gumption to commit crimes anymore: the creative aspect of crime has fallen into decay. As for the uprising that takes a principled stand against violence, hats off to them, I admire the idealism, but I don’t think it’s going to accomplish much.”
― Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson)

“Maybe making something of yourself is as simple as having the gumption to do something bigger than you could have ever imagined, of walking, no marching straight into the center of fear all while playing a horn, blowing your worries into sweet, bold, triumphant music.”
― Tanya Lee Stone, The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War

“If I have to give up Naveen, there are several things I want in return," Tiana said.
Even when she had no way out, she still drove a hard bargain. In a way, he could admire that. It was too bad she was such a goody two-shoes. With her gumption, Tiana could help him take over this entire city.”
― Farrah Rochon, Almost There

“The trouble with colored folks is they ain't got no gumption. They ought to let white folks know they ain't going to keep on putting up with their nonsense.'

'How they going to do that? You keep saying that, and I keep telling you you don't know what you're talking about. A man can't have no gumption when he ain't got nothing to have it with. Why, don't you know they could clean this whole place out easy if colored folks started to acting up.”
― Ann Petry, The Street