Maya Angelou Quotes

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

Of course we all break and we all cry and stumble. It's whether you allow the negative experiences to define you or shape you and make you become who you are in the best possible way. You use them as tools.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.

What don't break you will make you.

The biggest thing for me is that I've managed to work through some difficult times, and those moments always make you stronger. It makes you a stronger person and a better player.