Thursday 12 December 2013

Helping individuals develop

GRIT and self-control

Angela Lee Duckworth


"Enthusiasm" comes from "entheos" -- the Greek word for "the God within." When we are exuberant or enthusiastic, you could say we are expressing the Spirit that dwells within as us.

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen." 
-- Arland Gilbert

"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world." 
-- Sheila Graham

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." 
-- Albert Camus

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

-- Helen Keller

"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them."
-- Henry Hoskins

Taking up the mantel ourselves