Angela Duckworth Quotes

If you can't hold yourself accountable and get your job done then you're not going to be successful.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I don't take off as many days as most other producers and songwriters, so I'm working every single day, and I do songs every day. So it's just about finding time, scheduling, getting in and cutting the records. I make it happen and that's the name of the game. It's no excuses - you gotta figure it out.

I think one of the greatest skills a person can have is to complete a task they start. To take something from beginning, to middle, to end. In life, if you have that skill, I think you can go very far.

If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.

Do the day's work.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

I always try to work hard and well if it's possible.

Running a marathon was important to me, so I found time to train for it. Writing books is also important to me, so you know what? I carve out the time.

I always try to work on my birthday.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

Whatever you do, stay focused. Because any stuff is not going to last forever. Once you get a show at something, you gotta roll with it. You can't sit on your ass. You better keep working. You better stay motivated.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.