Angela Duckworth Quotes

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

Fortunately for me, I'm still evolving into the person I'm supposed to be. And though they don't know it yet, and may not come to accept it, I'm done living by their protocols or anyone else's. I'm the only one who will take credit for my successes. And I'm the only one who will take the blame for my mistakes. From now on, I live for me.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

There are things one must do for oneself.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

Follow your own star!

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Do everything yourself.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.