“Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – Angela Duckworth
62 Angela Duckworth Quotes
- “There are no shortcuts to excellence.”
2. “No whining. No complaining. No excuses.”
3. “Talent is not all there is to achievement.”
4. “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
5. “The highly accomplished were paragons of perseverance.”
6. “Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.”
7. “Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future.”
8. “As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”
9. “I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.”
10. “Most of us become more conscientious, confident, caring, and calm with life experience.”
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11. “Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
12. “To be gritty is to resist complacency.”
13. “What ripens passion is the conviction that your work matters. For most people, interest without purpose is nearly impossible to sustain for a lifetime.”
14. “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.”
15. “At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.”
16. “I’ll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I’ll get back up.”
17. “Greatness is many, many individual feats, and each of them is doable.”
18. “One form of perseverance is the daily discipline of trying to do things better than we did yesterday. So,”
19. “Passion begins with intrinsically enjoying what you do.”
20. “Apparently, aptitude did not guarantee achievement. Talent for math was different from excelling in math class.”
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21. “Interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world.”
22. “Stop reading so much and go think.”
23. “With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.”
24. “Gritty people do more deliberate practice and experience more flow.”
25. “Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.”
26. “The most important were challenges that exceeded current skills.”
27. “Interest without purpose is nearly impossible to sustain for a lifetime.”
28. “Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
29. “Degree of strength of will or perseverance. Quiet determination to stick to a course once decided upon.”
30. “Optimists are more satisfied with their marriages.”
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31. “When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can’t be found, you guarantee they won”
32. “Whatever it is that you want to do, you’ll find in life that if you’re not passionate about what it is you’re working on, you won’t be able to stick with it.”
33. “It isn’t suffering that leads to hopelessness. It’s suffering you think you can’t control.”
34. “It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:”
35. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
36. “Have a fierce resolve in everything you do.” “Demonstrate determination, resiliency, and tenacity.” “Do not let temporary setbacks become permanent excuses.”
37. “Some people are great when things are going well, but they fall apart when things aren’t.”
38. “When it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously.”
39. “Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”
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40. “Tendency not to abandon tasks from mere changeability.”
41. “The focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort.”
42. “Eighty percent of success in life is showing up.”
43. “Talent counts, effort counts twice.”
44. “Positive feedback makes us feel happy, competent, and secure.”
45. “One way to interpret these stories is that talent is great, but tests of talent stink.”
46. “Any successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do.”
47. “I learned a lesson I’d never forget. The lesson was that, when you have setbacks and failures, you can’t overreact to them.”
48. “The focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort. As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”
49. “The plain fact remains that men the world over possess amounts of resource, which only very exceptional individuals push to their extremes of use.”
50. “At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.”
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51. “Encouragement during the early years is crucial because beginners are still figuring out whether they want to commit or cut bait.”
52. “Well okay, that didn’t go so well, but I guess I will just carry on. ”
53. “Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.”
54. “Without effort, your talent is nothing more than unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t.”
55. “Staying on the treadmill is one thing, and I do think it’s related to staying true to our commitments even when we’re not comfortable. But getting back on the treadmill the next day, eager to try again, is in my view even more reflective of grit.”
56. “Even if some of the things they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they wouldn’t dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.”
57. “I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.”
58. “A fixed mindset about ability leads to pessimistic explanations of adversity, and that, in turn, leads to both giving up on challenges and avoiding them in the first place.”
59. “This seminal experiment proved for the first time that it isn’t suffering that leads to hopelessness. It’s suffering you think you can’t control.”
60. “How you see your work is more important than your job title.”
61. “Common sequence is to start out with a relatively self-oriented interest, then learn self-disciplined practice, and, finally, integrate that work with an other-centered purpose.”
62. “Over time, we learn life lessons we don’t forget, and we adapt in response to the growing demands of our circumstances. Eventually, new ways of thinking and acting become habitual.”
Angela Lee Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist, and popular science author. She is a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focuses on perseverance and self-control. She founded and serves as CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit organization whose goal is to advance the study and application of character development.