Grit is the courage and strength to get up after falling in life. Developing Grit within yourself will impart positivity to the mind. It will spread a positive aura everywhere, encouraging others to be strong.
Grit teaches one to maintain an equilibrium in his personal and professional life. It builds up the skills of prioritizing your work. If you have a priority list, you can achieve your goal more quickly than trying to achieve something randomly. Grit thus helps you avoid mental frustration or exhaustion.
She observed that Grit is the primary factor common among high-achievers. She thus developed a grit scale to measure the numbers. It is a significant subject for the character building of a person.
Grit Quotes For Students
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." -Wayne Dyer
"Grit. Push yourself to the limit." -Unknown*
"Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit." -Jonah Lehrer
"A grit mind strengthens all of your strengths." -Pearl Zhu
"Your dreams are on the other side of your grit." -Unknown*
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." -Harry Golden
"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong." -Sarah Dessen
"Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit." -Wade Davis
"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph." -George Washington
"Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimless." -John Ortberg
"Grit, a positive trait based on passion, perseverance, and motivation." -Unknown*
"Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton
"Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, Grit and ingenuity." -Ogwo David Emenike
"Grit, the raw endurance, perseverance and passion that keeps you going despite obstacles." -Keisha Blair
"Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't." -Angela Duckworth
"Grit is having the courage to push through, no matter what the obstacles are, because it's worth it." -Chris Morris
"Grit is picking yourself up and moving forward even when you think you can't take one more step." -Christy Mossburg
"Grit! The ability to persevere, overcome and move forward in spite of challenges, failures and obstacles." -Unknown*
"The focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort. As much as talent counts, effort counts twice." -Angela Duckworth
"I can and I will." -Unknown*
"No grit, no pearl." -Unknown*
"Work hard. Be smart. Don't give up." -Unknown*
"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." -Kevin Durant
"Greatness requires internal toughness." -Samuel Thiongo
"The thing that we did was, we didn't give up." -Jay Z
"Dreams don't work unless you do." -John C.Maxwell
"No whining, no complaining, no excuses." -Angela Duckworth
"In plain words, you've got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn't wisdom." -Eugene O'Neill
"Being a top performer - whether it's in business or on the athletic field - requires grit and tenacity, as well as the continuous desire to become better." -Christine Lagarde
Grit Quotes For Athletes
"Grit is sticking with your future day in, day out and not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years." -Angela Lee Duckworth
"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a spirit." -Angela Duckworth
"Grit: Refusing to give, pushing to the limit, wiping the sweat off the face in order to make a better tomorrow." -Unknown*
"Successful people aren't born successful. Behind it all, there is hard work, persistence and a lot of Grit." -Arshar Wahendna
"Grit. Facing challenges with courage and strength, and working through them. No matter how difficult they appear." -Unknown*
"To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal."-Angela Duckworth
"To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall seven times, and rise eight." -Angela Duckworth
"What is Grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck." -Peter Diamandis
Famous Grit Quotes
"Grit is having the courage to do the right thing, regardless of the popularity or consequences." -John Hall
"Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions- cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity, and endurance success will come." -Amir Ray
"Grit means not taking no for an answer and sticking to your guns." -Levison Wood
"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance." -Samuel Johnson
"People with grid don't believe that failure is a permanent condition." -Angela Duckworth
"Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness." -John Ortberg
"God honors a beautiful blend of gift and Grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the Grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively." -Beth Moore
"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." -Henry Ford
"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from indominable will." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent." -Dolly Parton
"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it." -Vince Lombardi
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie
"You cannot talk about Grit – you have to embody it. You cannot talk about faith – you have to live it. You cannot talk about the desert – you have to cross it." -Dr. Dragos Bratasanu
"Grit: Possessing indomitable spirit. Having a drive for achievement regardless of upbringing or situation. Earning success in the trenches through hard work." -Unknown*
Mental Grit Quotes
"You had to develop grit." -John Hickenlooper
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." -James A. Michener
"Grit has two components: passion and perseverance." -Angela Duckworth
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." -Steve Jobs
"Mindset is everything. Your success begins and ends with mindset. In between it's Grit that carries you through." -LeAura Alderson
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." -John Wooden
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work." -George Bernard Shaw
Miscellaneous Quotes About Grit
"Grit is knowing who you are and where you are headed, moving determinedly forward with eyes fixed on the mark, rather than the obstacles that lie in wait." -Christine Bisch
"Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it." -Carol Dweck
"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal." -Vince Lombardi
"I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
"True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done." -John Wayne
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Mark Twain
"We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary." -Carol Dweck
"Grit is that extra something that separates the most successful people from the rest. It's the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality" -Travis Bradberry
"Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint." -Angela Duckworth
"Grit is sticking with your future, day-in, day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality." -Angela Duckworth
"With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the same time, effort makes skill productive." -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 uncomfortable place, work hard to improve upon a given interest, and do it again and again." -Sarah Lewis
"There is no failure. Only feedback." -Robert Allen
"Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be." -Rick Warren
"Any fool in the world knows it's true, whether it's a question of raising horses or writing plays." -Eugene O'Neill
"You simply have to face the prospect of starting at the bottom and spending years learning how to do it." -Eugene O'Neill
"Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up." -Spryte Loriano
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." -Voltaire
"Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny." -Paul Bradley Smith
"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 to form part of the physical substance of the man." -Edwin Percy Whipple
"But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done."
-Mark Twain
"The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through." -Plutarch
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
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