Angela Duckworth Quotes

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do.

My life is better with every year of living it.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with.

If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.

If I had accepted the offers to continue just for the sake of carrying on then it wouldn't have made me happy especially if it was just for money. Now I've got other projects to concentrate on.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

I made up my mind several years ago that I had worked very hard to get to where I am in life and that I was only going to do things that are fun and exciting.

Figure out what questions you'd ask to see if you were happy with your life. Then wake up every day and live intentionally, so you're happy with the answers at the end.