Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from…

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every…

— Chip Heath

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the…

— George Santayana

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had,…

— John Green

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life… Freedom demands structure.

— Garrison Keillor

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers,…

— Hans Selye

A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

— Lionel Shriver

“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.”

— Suzy Kassem

“One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi…

— Taylor Stevens

The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the…

— J. C. Ryle

“I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.”

— Colin Cotterill

There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

— T. E. Lawrence

“Without purpose, we're zombies aimlessly roaming the earth.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense…

— Paul Morrissey

“Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.”

— James Allen

Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life…

— Lionel Shriver