Quotes About Resilience

I know why the caged bird sings.

If you dont like something, change it. If you cant change it, change your attitude.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.