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True Grit

By Angela Lee Duckworth and Lauren Eskreis-Winkler — 2013

It may be obvious that effort and stamina are required to accomplish anything worthwhile in life. But how easy is it to forget this fact in moments when we feel tortoise-like relative to our seemingly hare-like peers?

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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