Quotes about Strength
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
- Maya Angelou
She worked the thread through the flowered cloth as if she were sewing the torn ends of her life together.
- Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.
- Maya Angelou
Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
- Maya Angelou
Nothing can dim.the light which shines within us
- Maya Angelou
We turned other cheeks so often our heads seemed to revolve on the end of our necks, like old stop and go signs.
- Maya Angelou
After a short labor, and without too much pain (I decided that the pain of delivery was overrated), my son was born.
- Maya Angelou
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.1 —II TIMOTHY 1:7
- Melody Beattie
I don't think love has to hurt as much as it did in the past. I don't think we have to allow love to hurt us as much as it has. We certainly don't have to let it destroy us.
- Melody Beattie
Others do not have our magic. We have our magic. It is in us.
- Melody Beattie
Surrendering to a Power greater than ourselves is how we become empowered.
- Melody Beattie
I've learned I can take care of myself, and what I can't do, God will do for me. —Al-Anon member
- Melody Beattie