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“Everything we say and do around children registers. A child’s character is formed through a succession of moment-by-moment communications and interactions with the people closest to them, and even something as simple as regularly expressing a positive outlook on life can make a significant difference.”

William Damon

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“Our study results convince me that anyone can find purpose and pursue it with rich benefit to themselves and others. But, as I have pointed out, support is vital along the way.”

William Damon

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“From gratitude springs not only an enhanced appreciation for our own blessings but also a desire to pass such blessings along to others—the heart and soul or purpose.”

William Damon

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“Critics have complained, rightly I believe, that our obsessive reliance on standardized test scores deters both teachers and students from concentrating on the real mission of schooling: developing a love of learning for learning’s sake—a love that will then lead to self-maintained learning throughout the lifespan.”

William Damon

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“Purpose endows a person with joy in good times and resilience in hard times, and this holds true all throughout life.”

William Damon

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“We must recapture that longer and more enlightened view. As a revered international leader of an earlier era, Dag Hammarskjold, once said, ‘Only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.’ It is our responsibility as adults in this uncertain, confusing, and increasingly cynical time to provide the younger generation with far-horizon guidance.”

William Damon

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“The case that I make throughout this book is that finding a clear purpose in life is essential for their achievement of happiness and satisfaction in life, and that doing so is a good deal harder than it should be in our present-day cultural environment.”

William Damon

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“To be gritty is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. To be gritty is to hold fast to an interesting and purposeful goal. To be gritty is to invest, day after week after year, in challenging practice. To be gritty is to fall down seven times, and rise eight.”

Angela Duckworth

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“Author and activist James Baldwin once put it this way: ‘Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

Angela Duckworth

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“In my ‘grit lexicon,’ therefore, purpose means ‘the intention to contribute to the well-being of others.’”

Angela Duckworth

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“Interest is one source of passion. Purpose—the intention to contribute to the well-being of others—is another. The mature passions of gritty people depend on both.”

Angela Duckworth

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“Eventually, if you keep practicing in the same time and place, what once took conscious thought to initiate becomes automatic. ‘There is no more miserable human being,’ observed William James, than the one for whom ‘every beginning of every bit of work’ must be decided anew each day.”

Angela Duckworth

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“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.”

Angela Duckworth

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“I came to a fundamental insight that would guide my future work: Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”

Angela Duckworth

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“The bottom line on culture and grit is: If you want to be grittier, find a gritty culture and join it. If you’re a leader, and you want the people in your organization to be grittier, create a gritty culture.”

Angela Duckworth

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“There’s an old Japanese saying: ‘Fall seven, rise eight.’ If I were ever to get a tattoo, I’d get these four simple words indelibly inked.”

Angela Duckworth

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“Your stand will answer the question ‘What would I do?’ and your purpose will answer the question ‘Why am I here?’”

Mark Divine

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“To become the best version of yourself possible, you must suck it up and do the work!”

Mark Divine

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“When we live in full awareness of our stand, then we can face fear with courage. Fear is natural, something to be faced and understood, not to be avoided. Finding the courage to act in the presence of fear is the Way of the SEAL.”

Mark Divine

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“We must define our comfort zone, and then get the heck out of it! The 20X factor is all about embracing a personal culture of mighty effort.”

Mark Divine

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