Aimlessness Quote by John Ortberg Download Open image “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” — John Ortberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aimlessness Grit Resilience Time
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future. I have a… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about you,” Dallas would often say, “is not the things that you achieve; it is the person that you become.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I’m sure he doesn’t see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.” — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“One foot in front of the other, more aimless than direct, Bradford left the waiting room for the outside world. Called for a taxi… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers,… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
