Grit Quotes

Grit is perseverance and passion towards long term goals.

Grit grows as we figure out our life philosophy, learn to dust ourselves off after rejection and disappointment, and learn to tell the difference between low-level goals that should be abandoned quickly and higher-level goals that demand more tenacity. The maturation story is that we develop the capacity for long-term passion and perseverance as we get older.

Angela Duckworth

Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up.

Spryte Loriano

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.

Angela Duckworth

The main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.

Angela Duckworth

The people who stick with things for years and never stop almost always win the race.

James Clear

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert Schuller

The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.

Ryan Holiday

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Angela Duckworth

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas Edison

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

William Cobbett

Grit is having the courage to push through, no matter what the obstacles are, because it’s worth it.

Chris Morris

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

Drew Barrymore

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Walt Disney

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

John Newton

Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

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

Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence – charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word ‘grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.

Reid Hoffman

Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't.

Angela Duckworth

One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday.

Angela Duckworth

Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.

Angela Duckworth

No whining. No complaining. No excuses.

Angela Duckworth

Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future. "I have a feeling tomorrow will be better" is different from "I resolve to make tomorrow better.”

Angela Duckworth

To be gritty is to resist complacency.

Angela Duckworth

Have a fierce resolve in everything you do. Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity. Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses. Use mistakes and problems as opportunities to get better—not reasons to quit.

Angela Duckworth

It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things.

Angela Duckworth

I won’t just have a job; I’ll have a calling. I’ll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I’ll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.

Angela Duckworth

I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.

Angela Duckworth

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. 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. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Angela Duckworth

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Plutarch

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

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

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Winston Churchill

There isn’t a person anywhere who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford

You have a choice - you can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face.

Greatness Requires Internal Toughness.

Grit, the raw endurance, perseverance and passion that keeps you going despite obstacles.

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

Peter Diamandis

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

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg

Your dreams are on the other side of your grit.

Grit is picking yourself up and moving forward even when you think you can’t take one more step.

Christy Mossburg

When our commitment is wavering, the best way to stay on track is to consider the progress we’ve already made. As we recognize what we’ve invested and attained, it seems like a waste to give up, and our confidence and commitment surge.

Adam Grant

Grit is having the courage to do the right thing, regardless of the popularity or consequences.

Joan Hall

Why were the highly accomplished so dogged in their pursuits? For most, there was no realistic expectation of ever catching up to their ambitions. In their own eyes, they were never good enough. They were the opposite of complacent. And yet, in a very real sense, they were satisfied being unsatisfied. Each was chasing something of unparalleled interest and importance, and it was the chase—as much as the capture—that was gratifying. Even if some of the things they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they wouldn’t dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.

Angela Duckworth

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

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

Sonya Teclai

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.

Winston Churchill

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

There are no shortcuts to excellence. Developing real expertise, figuring out really hard problems, it all takes time - longer than most people imagine...you've got to apply those skills and produce goods or services that are valuable to people...Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you're willing to stay loyal to it...it's doing what you love, but not just falling in love - staying in love.

Angela Duckworth

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. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.

Angela Duckworth

There is no failure. Only feedback.

Robert Allen

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Voltaire

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

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

Dolly Parton

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

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 harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

George Washington