Age Quote by Angela Duckworth

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

— Robert Sutton

“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

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

— Peter Diamandis

Grit can't be measured on pop quizzes, but it can often predict long-term success more than mere intelligence.

— Laura Moser

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

“Two indicators could easily be rephrased as passion items for the Grit Scale. Degree to which he works with distant objects in view (as…

— 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

“One way to think about grit is to understand how it relates to other aspects of character. In assessing grit along with other virtues,…

— Angela Duckworth

“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

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

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think…

— Angela Duckworth