Backbone Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

“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

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

— Peter Diamandis

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

“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

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

“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

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if…

— John Wayne

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

— Robert Sutton

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

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside…

— Lacey Evans