Carol S. Dweck Quotes

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.

Nothing in this league was ever given to me.

I see myself as the product of hard work.

I've never been a basketball prodigy. I've always had to work, earn my way. And that's the way I want it to be.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

I learned pretty quickly that it's your WORK ETHIC that LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. Education helps, but I've met failures who have Ph.D.s. I believe the hardest worker is always going to win.

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

I know I want to always do the best I can.

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

I couldn't buy my way - I had to work my way. What a great quote: 'I couldn't buy my way into success, I had to work my way into success.'

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.