{"quotes":[{"text":"Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.","author":"Dolly Parton","tags":["grit","humour","inspirational","talent"],"id":7903,"author_id":"Dolly+Parton"},{"text":"All those dotted lines were just the parts of the story where she would get on the ground and get her hands dirty with the mess of it all. The mess and the glory of other people’s hearts and heart songs. She would learn it would take grit, and guts, and courage to make a difference. But the world will always need people who care enough to make a difference, so she needed to not miss her casting call.","author":"Hannah Brencher","tags":["courage","dotted-lines","grit","hands","hearts","making-a-difference"],"id":25685,"author_id":"Hannah+Brencher"},{"text":"Chamara. What is the word that comes closest to it? Soo-Ja wondered. To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? There is no other word for it, no way to translate it. It is not a word. It is a way to console yourself. He is not just telling her to stand the pain, but giving her comfort, the power to do so. Chamara is an incantation, and if she listens to its sound, she believes that she can do it, that she will push through this sadness. And if she is strong about it, she'll be rewarded in the end. It is a way of saying, I know, I feel it, too. This burns my heart, too.","author":"Samuel Park","tags":["chamara","grit","korean","pain","sadness"],"id":26355,"author_id":"Samuel+Park"},{"text":"The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.","author":"Angela Duckworth","tags":["good","style","grit "],"id":31375,"author_id":"Angela+Duckworth"},{"text":"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?","author":"Susan C. Young","tags":["change","communication","empowerment","flourishing","grit","life-balance","mindset","optimism","pearls","personal-growth","positive-psychology","resilience","self-help","self-improvement","speaker-susan-young","stress-management","stress-relief","success","thrive-in-times-of-change","www-susanspeaks-com"],"id":44383,"author_id":"Susan+C.+Young"},{"text":"It's not about grades, or saaviness, or sex appeal. It's all about grit. The strength of your character is the strength of your character determines your success more than anything else.","author":"Jennifer Coletta","tags":["character","expat-housewife","grit","motivation","strength","success"],"id":45643,"author_id":"Jennifer+Coletta"},{"text":"Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, tenacity and endurance success will come.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["beauty","courage","endurance","endurance-and-attitude","endurance-calmness","endurance-patience","endurance","grit","journey","knock-you-down","liberation","life","mantra","namaste","passion","peace","perseverance","power","qoutes","resilience","resilience","strength","strength-and-courage","strength-of-character","strength-through-adversity","success","success-strategies","successful-living","tenacity"],"id":46849,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.","author":"Jeff Bridges","tags":["man","grit","true "],"id":47530,"author_id":"Jeff+Bridges"},{"text":"I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, 'no, certainly not!' but I said, 'ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to,' and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, 'of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water.'When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like 'this is a very handsome man' and 'you must have been proud of your brother' when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and 'you're lucky you have another brother'; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, 'Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!","author":"Sheldon Currie","tags":["accident","black","brother","canada","cape-breton","coal","coal-mine","death","depression","disaster","dusty","face","father","fear","friendship","grief","grit","hospital","joke","lonely","loss","lost","mine","mourning","nova-scotia","nun","religion","rock","sadness","smile","soul","teenage","wash"],"id":61726,"author_id":"Sheldon+Currie"},{"text":"Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.","author":"Daniel D. Maurer","tags":["grit","personal-transformation","resilience","seeing-clearly","spiritual","syrian-refugee"],"id":64479,"author_id":"Daniel+D.+Maurer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}