grit

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

Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime.

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

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

Success doesn't just happen. It is a product of hard work, grit and ingenuity.

Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster

But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so many things these people would rather die than do. Perhaps it was that they were without hope but still smiling at life, bowing gracefully and passing it by. And this Scarlett could not do. She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile. Of the sweetness and courage and unyielding pride of her friends, Scarlett saw nothing. She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.

NEVER give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

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.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.