Direction Quote by Angela Duckworth

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and…

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

“Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in…

— Charles Duhigg

Grit is not just simple elbow-grease term for rugged persistence. It is an often invisible display of endurance that lets you stay in an…

— Sarah Lewis

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

— Peter Diamandis

Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Grit drives people to succeed, especially when they face daunting and prolonged challenges—a hallmark of every scaling effort. (Scaling Up Excellence)”

— Robert Sutton

There are many talented individuals who simply do not follow through on their commitments. In fact, in our data, grit is usually unrelated or…

— Suman Rai

“According to Dr. Angela Duckworth, grit is passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. [...] Grit is sticking to one thing for years or even decades.”

— Benjamin P. Hardy

“there’s a hard way to get grit and an easy way. The hard way is to do it by yourself. The easy way is…

— Angela Duckworth

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

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and…

— Angela Duckworth

Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people,…

— Angela Duckworth