Quotes About Overcoming

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?

Every storm runs out of rain.

For what can stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes a majority?

The only way out of something is all the way through it.

You may encounter many defeats. But you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from and how you can still come out of it.

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

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You may kill me with your hatefulness, but like air I'll rise.

You may trode me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise.

I had a lot of clouds, but I have had so many rainbows.

I made bitterness into a wad and swallowed it.

Even Christ Himself turned His back on Satan. Wouldn't He turn His back on me? I could feel the evilness flowing through my body and waiting, pent up, to rush off my tongue if I tried to open my mouth. I clamped my teeth shut, I'd hold it in. If it escaped, wouldn't it flood the world and all the innocent people?

removed from their own day of glorious release

I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water.

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me, because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide to not be reduced by them.

I rise I rise I rise

You cannot control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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

still I rise