103 Quotes About Grit

Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or anywhere! The more you cultivate compassion the more will be your fulfillment, resilience, patience, grit, endurance and equanimity.

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.

As a pearl is formed and its layers grow, a rich iridescence begins to glow. The oyster has taken what was at first an irritation and intrusion and uses it to enrich its value. How can you coat or frame the changes in your life to harvest beauty, brilliance, and wisdom?

Here are what I call the 3 Gs of Humility:1. Grief: You’re experiencing grief. It’s a tunnel, not a cave.2. Grace: Give yourself and others grace. Like, now.3. Grit: You have to learn how to make money differently.Humility is learning. Learning is changing.

She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed.

I had to work extremely hard to maintain perspectives during my emotional lows, but in the process I was forced to cultivate grit, persistence, patience.

Her hand touched his hardness "You're a big boy," she said, playfully."Had no complaints," replied Simon.

Torn between fear of retribution and fear of disaster, he stood unmoving, unable to leave...

Simon developed a keen interest in Scouts, he loved the ethos, the friendly company of the other boys.