“Just make an effort and keep going. Start from where you are, even if you are scared and unsure. Take that first… — Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo Copy Share Image
Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
In every sport there comes a moment when a spell of bitter weeping seems like a fair recess from whatever tough work… — Susan Casey Copy Share Image
“ Native Soil There's Nobody simpler than us, or with more pride, or fewer tears. (1922) Our hearts don't wear it as… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size… — Bridget Carpenter Copy Share Image
“there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be lighthearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Our great country was founded on hard work and competition. That sense of grit is the main principle in our free-market economy… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
All Southern cooks have tried their hands at shrimp and grits, and each one has his or her own version of the… — Gina Neely Copy Share Image
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
Well, when you think of Dale Earnhardt, you think of determination. You think of grit. Just a blue-collar, working-class guy that got… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
Lightweight and slim, immersion blenders can appear to have all the grit of a Bichon Frise, but the reality is that they're… — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
“Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit.… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Most teachers, when surveyed, say that it is part of their job to help students develop things like grit. This is especially… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use!… — Cliff Sloan Copy Share Image
“Wigmore turned towards the window. A column of armoured vehicles was making its way down the Mall towards Buckingham Palace. As he… — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make… Usually one's cooking is better… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says… — James Redford Copy Share Image
“Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth… — Samuel Park Copy Share Image
It is the manner of (Cadel) Evan's triumph that has particularly endeared him to his countrymen and women... Australians place a premium… — Paul Ramadge Copy Share Image
“Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future. I… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“Two indicators could easily be rephrased as passion items for the Grit Scale. Degree to which he works with distant objects in… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“the real secret of world-class performers is not the daily routines that they develop, but that they stick to them. That they… — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
