Quotes about Perseverance
Centered on the world's stage, she sings to her loves and beloveds, to her foes and detractors: However I am perceived and deceived, however my ignorance and conceits, lay aside your fears that I will be undone, for I shall not be moved.
— Maya Angelou
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
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
Sister, change everything you don't like about your life. But when you come to a thing you can't change, then change the way you think about it. You'll see it new, and maybe a new way to change it.
— Maya Angelou
Many of us react as though everything is a crisis because we have lived with so many crises for so long that crisis reaction has become a habit.
— Melody Beattie
Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them.
— Melody Beattie
We are like singers in a large chorus. If the guy next to us gets off key, must we? Wouldn't it help him, and us, more to strive to stay on key? We can learn to hold our part.
— Melody Beattie
Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.
— Melody Beattie
Light and love are on my side.
— Melody Beattie
Take one or two steps more. Right around the bend is when we'll see the Light. God isn't late. We're early. Don't be impatient. Instead, be present for the moment we're in now.
— Melody Beattie