Angela Duckworth Quotes

Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.

I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

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

I was never afraid of hard work.

I've always been someone who has been very driven. I think my circumstances, how I grew up, hard work and work ethic are absolutely vital to any success that people might have, regardless of what they might be doing.

I am the product of hustlers who taught me how to do it. They gave me a hustler's ambition. Not a bad thing to get from your parents. But hustling only gets you so far. You have to trust yourself. And you have to be ready to fall on your face and be okay when it happens.

There are a lot of things in business that are completely out of your control, but hard work isn't one of them.

I know only one way: work hard.

The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.

Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.

The key to anyone's success is staying with it!

I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't.

There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.