Adversity Quote by Charles Duhigg

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

— Adam M. Grant

“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

“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

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests.…

— Angela Duckworth

“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

“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 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

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

— Angela Duckworth

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

— Peter Diamandis

“One of the keys to cultivating grit is making the task at hand more interesting and motivating.”

— Adam M. Grant

“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