Angela Duckworth Quotes

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

It's always too early to quit.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.