Angela Duckworth Quotes

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

It's how many times you get back up that defines you.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Because you've done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.