Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

by Angela Duckworth

“Yes, but the main thing is that greatness is doable. Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”

“With everything perfect,” Nietzsche wrote, “we do not ask how it came to be.” Instead, “we rejoice in the present fact as though it came out of the ground by magic.”

“Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.”

“Right, it’s doing what you love, but not just falling in love—staying in love.”