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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
Being in New York as a whole, Brooklyn as well, you can do anything you want. That's by far the best part… — Spencer Dinwiddie 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
The training that service members go through is grueling, but it instills in them everything they need to be successful on the… — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape… — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
“If you want to bring forth grit in your child, first ask how much passion and perseverance you have for your own… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: 'I don't want to do this. I… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
