Goal-setting Quote by Benjamin P. Hardy

“grit: having passion and perseverance toward long-term goals.”

— Adam M. Grant

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

— Peter Diamandis

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

— Robert Sutton

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 embodies—but is not the same as—resilience, ambition, and self-control. The University of Pennsylvania psychologist and researcher Angela Duckworth defines it as passion and…

— Susan David

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

— John Wayne

Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years and…

— Suman Rai

“following through on our commitments while we grow up both requires grit and, at the same time, builds it.”

— 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 living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

— Anonymous

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