“Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or anywhere! The more you cultivate compassion the more will be your fulfillment, resilience, patience, grit, endurance and equanimity.”

“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.”

“You need to get out of your comfort zone to make connections with new ideas. If you don’t have that grit and resilience to embrace a growth mindset, you might never get a taste of what it feels like to be successful.”

“Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny”

“If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.”

“You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it.You cannot talk about faith. You have to live it.You cannot talk about the desert. You have to cross it.”

“But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don’t understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit, and she’s going to give the children a little of the medicine that helped her recover her smile when she thought she’d lost it forever.”

“There are no shortcuts to excellence”

“But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man’s mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.”

“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I’m telling you that’s a pretty illusion.”