Quotes about Perseverance
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.
— Maya Angelou
When you learn, teach. When you get, give" "But still, like dust, I'll rise" "I'm not on top but I call it swell if I'm able to work and get paid right..." "I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
— Maya Angelou
So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."-Maya Angelou
— Maya Angelou
It becomes easier to die and avoid conflicts than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.
— Maya Angelou
I have waited toes curled, hat rolled heart and genitals in hand on the back porches of forever in the kitchens and fields of rejections on the cold marble steps of America's White Out-House in the drop seats of buses and the open flies of war
— Maya Angelou
He badder than death yet gives no sweet release.
— Maya Angelou
No, you learned that you have power—power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere.
— 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. Does
— Maya Angelou
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —
— Maya Angelou
I can change by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
— Maya Angelou
Here, root yourselves beside me. I am that Tree planted by the River, Which will not be moved. I, the Rock, I, the River, I, the Tree, I am yours—your passages have been paid. Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need For this bright morning dawning for you. History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, but if faced With courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
I keep on dying, Because I love to live.
— Maya Angelou