Gumption Quotes

• Cualquiera con agallas y una mente aguda tomará la medida de dos cosas: lo que se dice y lo que se hace.

  Seamus Heaney

  Epic Poems, Two, Mind

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about 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 M. Pirsig

  Track, Motorcycle, Important

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• Es muy fácil perdonar a los demás sus errores; hace falta más agallas y coraje para perdonarles por haber sido testigos de los tuyos.

  Jessamyn West

  Perdón, Pascua, Error

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• Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Motivational, Needs, Defining

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.641, e-artnow

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• Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Waiting, Courses, Dues

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• Sanar las heridas de la tierra y de sus gentes no requiere santidad ni un partido político, sólo agallas y persistencia. No es una actividad liberal o conservadora; es un acto sagrado.

  Paul Hawken

  Party, Healing, Persistence

  Paul Hawken (2007). “Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

  James Agee

  Success, Spunk, Enough

  James Agee (2008). "Una muerte en la familia", p.115, Penguin

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Hens

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• If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fighting, Wind

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• Hay momentos en los que cada uno de nosotros tiene que tener agallas para adoptar una postura en cuanto a lo que desea conservar o cambiar para mantener nuestro amor propio y no ser como "una caña sacudida por el viento" (Mt. 11:7) . . . . Perdemos mucha credibilidad y fuerza, y corremos el riesgo de ser pesados en una balanza desigual, cuando, al estilo de Don Quijote, vamos por ahí "inclinando molinos de viento".

  James E. Faust

  Fuerza, Ser, Orden

  James E. Faust (1990). "Reach Up for the Light", Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company

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• Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Equality, Men, Sight

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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• I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Entrepreneur, Energy, Enthusiasm

  Fuente: bobmorris.biz

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• A veces no entiendo qué nos pasa. Este es el país más creativo e imaginativo del mundo y, sin embargo, a veces no tenemos el valor de explotar nuestra propiedad intelectual. Dividimos el átomo y ahora tenemos que recurrir a científicos franceses o coreanos para que nos ayuden a construir centrales nucleares. Perfeccionamos los mejores coches del mundo y ahora Rolls-Royce está en manos de los alemanes. Inventemos lo que inventemos, desde el motor a reacción hasta Internet, nos encontramos con que alguien se lo lleva y se forra con ello en otra parte.

  Boris Johnson

  País, Motores a reacción, Manos

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• Cuando yo era niño, la gente que se divorciaba era gente que no tenía agallas.

  Phil Donahue

  Kids, People, Divorced

  Phil Donahue (1979). "Mi propia historia, Donahue"

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• La fe en que cualquiera puede pasar de la miseria a la riqueza -con agallas y coraje, trabajo duro y ganas de trabajar- fue una vez el núcleo del Sueño Americano.

  Robert Reich

  Dream, Moving, Hard Work

  "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.

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• You've got to have gumption. You've got to be willing to stand up on the stage for no money for ten years.

  Samantha Bee

  Years, Stage, No Money

  Interview with Catherine O’Hara, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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• Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. "I never knew a girl to have such gumption," she'd say. "But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.

  Jeannette Walls

  Girl, Mom, Age

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