Maya Angelou Quotes

It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger?' In my case, I suppose it's not just a cliche.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find that alchemy that turns lead into gold, find that magic where you can see the loss as an entry point for learning and grow from it and become wiser and stronger.

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.